Resumen de Myopia and Dazzlement: Visions of Venice in Sergio Pitol
This article explores the various meanings constructed around the idea of defective sight in Sergio Pitol’s Venetian narrative in El arte de la fuga (1996). I argue that through his playful engagement with the many connotations of vision and the place of Venice in the cultural imagination of the West, Pitol puts forward a multi-layered meditation on literature and writing, which are among his main preoccupations in El arte de la fuga and throughout his oeuvre. I also explore the notion of chiaroscuro in a figurative sense as a central feature of Pitol’s poetics. To a lesser extent, the article also brings to the discussion other texts by Pitol, namely ‘El relato veneciano de Billie Upward’ (1981) and El viaje (2000).
