(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-07-15) Forero Gómez, Andrés
This article analyzes how Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo uses his novel La rambla paralela (2002) to expose his literary suicide (the death of his novelistic alter ego and his desire to stop writing altogether) as a form of protest towards the nonsensical nature of reality, which is frequently evidenced in Colombian society. To this end, the first section describes the role that suicide has had in Western thought and literature. Afterwards, the second section explains the reasons behind Vallejo’s critical stance in his works. Finally, the third and main section analyzes how Vallejo kills his narrative in his novel and how this act serves as the author’s most radical protest against contemporary reality.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-06-14) Torres Vergel, Frak
The purpose of this research is to analyze the various thematic and discursive elements by which Luis Noriega’s novel Iménez can be considered a demodystopia. To this end, the four coordinates of the system of signification of any demodystopia are first recognized: demography, biopolitics, science fiction and dystopia, which function as synergies present in the architecture of its meaning and as spaces of hermeneutic realization. In the second part, the characterization of these components in the novel diegesis is developed: demographic phenomenon generating the plot conflict (overpopulation), totalitarianism and deviant uses of biopolitics through coercive methods of manipulation and domination (the system of privileges), novum (the Dome), loss of freedom (conditioning and predestination) and identity alienation of the protagonist (detriment of the self).
