His work is not easily lumped into traditional generic categories, as it spans and combines elements of poetry, prose fiction, and theatre.
It circulated clandestinely, could only be found at one bookstore, and acquired a mythical status within the Argentine literary scene.
It is a long poem in prose centered on the figure of the Marquis of Sebregondi (according to the author an incarnation of Witold Gombrowicz), Pepe Bianco, and an Italian uncle of Lamborghini.
The magazine was heavily influenced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, particularly by way of the writings of Oscar Masotta, who was instrumental in bringing Lacanian thought to the Spanish-speaking world.
Other notable figures associated with Literal include Germán García, Luis Gusmán, Héctor Libertella, and Josefina Ludmer.
In the early eighties he lived in Barcelona and returned in 1982 to Mar del Plata, Argentina, where, convalescent, he wrote the novel-length triptych Las hijas de Hegel.
During his final years he wrote the long text Tadeys and the seven volumes of the multimedia Teatro proletario de cámara.
Lamborghini is commonly associated with the neobarroco (neobaroque) aesthetic, of which his friends Arturo Carrera and Néstor Perlongher were prominent representatives and which follows on the work of Cuban writers José Lezama Lima and Severo Sarduy.
The Argentine novelist, translator, and essayist César Aira has been responsible for the posthumous diffusion of his work.