Fantasías urbanas: México D.F. por Rafael Ramírez Heredia (La jaula de Dios), Guillermo Fadanelli (La otra cara de Rock Hudson) y Roberto Bolaño ("Jim")
The article is devoted to three recently created literary works, the novels La jaula de Dios by Rafael Ramírez Heredia (1989) and La otra cara de Rock Hudson by Guillermo Fadanelli (1997), as well as the short story «Jim» by Roberto Bolaño (2003). The texts serve to highlight how the city is represe...
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Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò, Prof. Dr. Frank Leinen, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli, Prof. Dr. Guido Rings
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.23692/imex.1.9 https://doaj.org/article/87cb9df6f64941caa865e20cd1b7a8dc |
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| Sumario: | The article is devoted to three recently created literary works, the novels La jaula de Dios by Rafael Ramírez Heredia (1989) and La otra cara de Rock Hudson by Guillermo Fadanelli (1997), as well as the short story «Jim» by Roberto Bolaño (2003). The texts serve to highlight how the city is represented in them, understood as a city-text, which plays the role of protagonist.
Imitating the form of a musical fugue, Ramírez Heredia gives a totalizing vision of Mexico City, remembered with nostalgia as an anthropological place (Augé), and highlights the 1985 earthquake as a decisive moment for the beginning of the formation of a civil society in view of an inactive city government overwhelmed by the event.
Renouncing every totalizing vision of the city, Fadanelli concentrates on a partial homogeneous vision of a ruined neighborhood of Mexico City, characterized by the absence of identity-giving features of anthropological places. The vision of a vicious circle of violence and crime is conveyed to all inhabitants, where even the heterotopias – highly ironized – are mere dead ends.
Bolaño takes as his point of departure elements of this almost topical discourse of the negatively impregnated city; however, what he accentuates is the aesthetic quality of the city-text. «Jim» allows for an allegorical reading that conceives the encounter between the characters as an encounter with the secret of poetry. |
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