ABSTRACT
Archives keep the secrets of the state; novels keep the secrets of culture, and the secret of these secrets.
González Echevarría1
[T]he archive of a society, a culture, or a civilization cannot be described exhaustively; or even, no doubt, the archive of a whole period. On the other hand, it is not possible for us to describe our own archive, since it is from within these rules that we speak, since it is that which gives to what we can say – and to itself, the object of our discourse – its modes of appearance.
