A Line on the Ground, the Ambivalence of the Border in the Literature of Fabián Severo

Abstract

In this article, dedicated to the novel Sepultura (2020) from the writer Fabian Severo, we reflect about the frontier as a literary topus. Besides the access difficulties to the publishers that the uruguayan writer faced with an insertion of portunhol in his literary work, since his first publish in 2010, he obtained recognition by part of the critics, having ever received several prizes. Generally, the critics highlight that the writer carries the voice and the memory of an interstitial region between Uruguay and the south of Brazil. Considering these aspects, we reflect about the cultural landscape created by Fabian Severo's novel from a critic perspective that joins geography and literature. So, the theoretical subsidies, which base our reflection, are especially, besides the studies of narratology, contribution of the book Del topos al logos Propuestas de geopoética (2006) from Fernando Aínsa and of the essay Frontera, naciones y región (2004) from Alejandro Grimson. Finally, based on the fundaments of geopoetic we understand how portunhol turns into a river of words and images which irrigates the culture of the region and how this aesthetic option is associated to the ambivalence senses of frontier present in the literature of the young frontier writer.