El oído que escribe en la frontera. Política con poética en la obra periodística de Rodolfo Walsh

Abstract

Between 1966 and 1969, by resuming and expanding the journalistic profession, which he had left aside to write fi ction in the 1963-65 period, Walsh makes a narrative, semiotic, historical, and ethnographic inquiry on the borders of society, literature and between both of them. In 1966-67 he publishes, in the massive magazine Panorama, ten chronicles about excursions to geographically and economically bordering areas of Argentina that would be compiled together with some others in a book in 1995. Journalistic writing introduces a new perspective on the police-political investigation of Rosendo case that took place in 1966; it was developed in the trade union press in 1968 and edited as a book in 1969. In both series, the writing ques-tions the edges of genres and media, and constructs the declarative posi-tion by hearing the occluded voices of community. The ear of the writer is the tool for that poetical and political work, which we analyze in ex-cerpts from the series of Panorama and ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (Who killed Rosendo?).