The dilation of the provisional in friendship relations in Glosa by Juan Jose Saer

Friendship is the main bond between the characters and it is fundamental to the construction of Glosa (1986), by Juan Jose Saer (1937-2005). We analyze friendship in Glosa as a community practice in which friends celebrate this connection, walking and talking - brief moments, but pleasantly dilated. This group reunites mainly in two space-times: a party and a walk. The festive atmosphere materializes in the interaction between the characters in these meetings and in the narrative voice, which pauses in the lengthy delight of the words. We conclude that Glosa is a comedy, especially because the narrator and characters prolong provisionally moments of friendship in the time of writing and reading. On the other hand, such comedy postpones, but does not prevent, the narration of the tragic fortune of the main characters, mainly in the novel's prolepsis, an account of the future of the characters, related to the effects of the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983).