Totality, in three contemporary argentine novels

Authors

  • Pablo Ernesto Luzuriaga Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201832624

Keywords:

Totality, argentine novel, modernism, fold

Abstract

Three contemporary Argentine novels published in 2003, 2010 and 2016 maintain a contradictory relationship with the lukasian concept of totality. Read together, The Past, by Alan Pauls; Accounts Pending, by Martin Kohan and The Absolute, by Daniel Guebel form a parable that goes from the omission to the cypher and from this to the hyperbole. The three depart and reject the totality, but paradoxically they do nothing but inquire into its meaning. The parable they draw, placed as a tracing paper on the series of Argentine history, corresponds to the parable of the kirchnerian phenomenon and its particular relationship with history and totality. None of the novels refers to the Argentine political present, but a reading that looks down on the parable of fiction and raises it to the parable of the Argentine experience of 2003 to this part, finds in the novels a way of questioning the present.

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Published

2018-04-15

How to Cite

Luzuriaga, P. E. (2018). Totality, in three contemporary argentine novels. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (3), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201832624