’Cuanto peor es el mundo mejor es mi poesía’: la construcción del ethos autorial en la escritura de Manuel Vilas

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In this article we deal with the strategies for the construction of the ethos that emerges in Manuel Vilas’ discourse: an authorial ethos not only iconoclastic and transgressive but also deliberately unstable and elusive, which aims to endow writing with a dimension as radical as disturbingly political. Thus, we contribute to the clarification of a controversial dimension of Vilas’ poetics and we do so by investigating the intersection point between lyrical praxis and programmatic discourse. This leads us to conclude the configuration of a political ethos that bets on a distinctive notion of engagement, where rhetorical iconoclasm and ideological instability are related to a conspiratorial illusion against the dominant order and its alienating effect. Although we focus on the maturity corpus, we also examine the rewriting processes of a ‘voice under construction’, which reveal the effort to erase the features of an authorial ethos very different from the one that has conquered centrality in the literary field.