In the presence of the establishment of a communicational sense: exile, hospitality, friendship and mutism

Abstract

This paper aims to recover, in the first place, some concerns that bring us closer to a search: that of combining senses of living and experience. Theme whose main references we find in the thought of Héctor Schmucler when discussing the conception of contemporary communication. Secondly, and taking as a starting point the proposal of Roland Barthes around the figure, we focus on thinking about, from different literary fragments, the problem that interests us here. That is, the sense of living within the framework of a society whose project of humanity celebrates communication, at the same moment in which it makes us witnesses of the destruction of an experience that makes it possible. Likewise, it is about proposing literature as a place from which to address figures of displacement. In this case, regarding the established truths around the meanings of living imposed by the current communicational ideology. If the latter is defined by permanent contact, the invariable continuum and the imposition of a common, among other aspects, the literary texts that we recover lead us to recognize exile, distance, silence as a will to deny before the establishment of a communicational order and a sense of living that is intended to be totalizing.