Texturas ajedrecísticas entre Europa y Argentina: El que mueve las piezas de Ariel Magnus (2017)

This article aims to contribute to the study on textures between Europe and Latin America, taking as an object of analysis a recent novel by Ariel Magnus (1975): El que mueve las piezas (2017). In it, the Argentine writer of German origin interweaves a complex historical and literary fabric in the manner of a game, spinning a plot that links events that occur on either side of the ocean. In the backdrop of the Chess Tournament of the Nations held in Buenos Aires in 1939 – coinciding with the declaration of the Second World War –Germany and Poland are creating another focus of conflict, being the protagonists of this Olympic competition. Thus, chess, in Magnus’s text, is not only presented as content, but transcends it as a playful proposal of literary, symbolic and semiotics construction, as well as sophisticated intertextual framework. The reversibility between fiction and reality, the metafiction, the constant dialogue with the reader, the spatial-temporal alterations, the autobiographical details which intrigue moves: these are some of the features of Magnus’s novel that I intend to investigate and that can enlighten the textures woven by the author with a diachronic and transcontinental cut between Europe and Argentina.