Literature and work

The paper aims to analyze a growing figure in Spanish-language literature – the independent writer-editor, using the case of the Argentine avant-garde writer and independent editor Damián Tabarovsky. The paper is structured in two sections of analysis that seek to provide a comprehensive view of a complex issue involving both writing and publishing. The first section critically examines the relationship between literature and work, questioning Bernard Lahire’s sociology of literature by introducing notions such as “recognition” or “valorization.” The second part uses the example of Damián Tabarovsky and Mardulce Editora to simultaneously consider Tabarovsky’s aesthetics and politics of aesthetics on the one hand, and the editorial poetics of Mardulce on the other, aiming to offer insights into the impact the Argentine writer-editor had on the literature of his time.