Carlos Rincón (1937-2018): Reasons for Remembrance and Oblivion

Abstract

This article traces the profile of the prominent Latin American intellectual Carlos Rincón (1937-2018). By combining sections of his biography with highlights of his work, it inquires on some of the effects of his writings. The thesis defended here is that the potentialities and obstacles of his work lie in its position within the perspective of the crisis of representation. In other words, it is a work that attacks the dialectical way of being and its preferences for unity and identity. This, in turn, makes it possible to explain Rincón’s disagreements with other currents of Latin American literary criticism.