Sergio Pitol and the “art of return”: narrative techniques in Juegos Florales

Abstract

The article proposes an analysis of novel Juegos florales as an exampleof a literature that finds its specific value in the composition of the workprocedures. The structural analysis of the story allows a methodological anchoringwhich seeks to inquire into issues more general involving, in some ways,literary theory and the act of verbal creation. These theoretical approaches arewhich founded Sergio Pitol productions. The “art of the return” is the descriptivemetaphor that refers to the metafictional process or the journey of writingto the point of convergence of procedures and senses.