The <i>Colectivo 12</i>. Digressions about a research group

Abstract

This article is a fictionalization of the route of Colectivo 12: a group of people directed by Ricardo Piglia –or Emilio Renzi–, that between 1993 and 2002 set out to take part in the debate about the Spanish American and Argentinian novel, its genre and history, and in the construction of the canon in the Río de la Plata through publications and disserations in congresses, interviews, and other events. Their redings and discussions around Macedonio Fernández’s novels were translated in the Diccionario de la Novela de Macedonio Fernández, a book open to future developments and editions. Its writing process is told here. This text is also a tribute to the writer Ricardo Piglia, in his doing as promoter and participant of a research collective.