Realismo, cumbia y el gozo de las bajas palabras: en torno a la poesía de Wáshington Cucurto

Abstract

From the context of the call to realism that has characterized contemporary Hispanoamerican literature, the Argentinean writer Wáshington Cucurto has undertaken a project called "rash realism" in which the limits between prose and poetry have been disrupted. Novelist and poet, Cucurto is also responsible for one of the most peculiar editorial projects of today: "Eloisa Cartonera". Halfway between the objectivist colloquialism and the vulgar language, the works of Cucurto link with the "bad" writing of the River Plate that goes from Arlt to Macedonio and more recently, to Alberto Laiseca. His style can be described as a re-writing of numerous voices, elaborated with irony and a grotesque movement, a mixture of incongrous materials, of sentimentalism and obscenity of a subject wishing to search: "to write as if you danced a cumbia".