El Susurro de Harpócrates: Silencio y postura literaria de Felisberto Hernández

Abstract

In the three chapters of this work, an analysis and reconstruction of the literary posture exercised by the Uruguayan pianist and writer Felisberto Hernández (1902- 1964) is made. This category is defined by the literary theorist Jérôme Meizoz as the particular way in which an author takes a position within the literary field, where aesthetic, discursive and social bets play a fundamental role to reach consecration. Here we explain how the author, a native of Montevideo, forged his literary stance based on the category of Silence, a product of his musical knowledge and the contact he had with the philosophy of Vazferreirana. So this work, besides showing how the author's life has implications for his career as a writer, makes it possible to read Hernández from a perspective far removed from that of fantastic literature, a diagnosis that critics insist on attributing to him.