Modulaciones narrativas experimentales en los cuentos de Los muertos, de Álvaro Bisama

Absztrakt

This paper pretends, first of all, to establish some main theoretical points to debate about the anti-story, considering under the linguistic and narratological perspective its complicated establishment as an alternative genre on its own constitution and nature. More than textualities gathered under the name of anti-story, this work proposes to analize on its first part the different experimental transgressions that the narrative has had, without those constituting a rupture of the profound structure of the “short story” genre. Then, in the second part it will examine how the short stories of the book Los muertos (2014, re-edited in 2019 by DeBolsillo) of the Chilean writer Álvaro Bisama, take advantage of those transgressions, defying the expectations of the traditional short story through literary devices that can be analized as reiterating patterns in his work (the presence of the low or postmodern culture as a facade; the use of falible narrators; the meta-literature as an auto-reflexive exercise, among others). This with the purpose to determine how this experiment pushes the structural and generic limits of the traditional tale, resulting in a focus not only on the actions but also on the internal transformation of its characters and the intention to dialogue within the historical and cultural context.