Héctor Viel Temperley: from invisibility to the category of “cult poet”

Abstract

This article shows that working with certain theoretical-critical categories makes invisible those writers who do not fit within them. We will concentrate on the Argentine poet Héctor Viel Temperley, who becomes invisible when you consider literature from sociological categories such as Pierre Bourdieu’s “structure of the intellectual field”, that understands it as a market with fix positions where groups of writers occupy pre-established places. Considering him from Deleuzian notions such as nomadism, rhizome, deterritorialization, and minoration, as well as from Rancière’s idea of visibility operations, becomes not only visible but occupies a specially privileged place for Argentine poetry critics.