Amir Hamed: Pure Literature

Abstract

The axes that federate our work hinge around the particular rareness that Hamed’s writing displays, a rareness that we understand in two ways: firstly, as an interpretative difficulty or bewilderment of the reader; secondly, as failure of circulation for his texts. His work raises questions of an aesthetic nature related both to the value that Hamed gives the creative act and to the social role of Literature today. In these pages we study the literary programme that emerges from his work as a whole, a programme understood not as a preliminary intentional project, but as a set of positive statements about Literature as an experience of the limits of what is legible and an aspiration to the Absolute, on the one hand; and also as a compound of structuring certainties about the author’s own fictional and critical production.