The Fabric of Criticism
An anthology of readings

In the words of Diamela Eltit, this book is “a concise autobiographical journey that recounts a reading passion that manifested itself since childhood. A passion that managed to shape a horizon of meaning when he began his work as a literary critic in the newspaper The Epoch in 1986. In this way, at the beginning of the return to democracy, it generated a recognizable and highly acclaimed critical role that allowed for the reading of a vast collection of Chilean novels and short stories. Exercising systematic literary criticism in media requires having a solid writing apparatus, not only to present a work, but primarily to enter into its conceptual structures, because the critical exercise consists of the paradox of maintaining both a closeness to and a distance from the texts.