Literatura argentina y extranjería: variaciones Piglia sobre Hudson

The links built by Ricardo Piglia´s poetics with the figure, career and work of William Hudson go through different stages, different variations. Regarding Hudson, the assessment that Ezequiel Martínez Estrada makes of Hudson´s work and career is decisive for Piglia. This has been detected since the formative years of the young writer Piglia, during the 1950s. Later, during the 1960s and 1970s, Piglia´s gradual and radical theoretical and political-literary position let him consider, at some point, Hudson´s figure as that of a foreigner of remarkable work, but definitely exotic and that remains in a colonized look with respect to Argentine culture. Finally, Piglia revalues the reader and writer Hudson, key to Argentine and Anglo-Saxon literatures and cultures, who is also a radical critic of capitalism. This essay interrogates the nuances of those different moments.