Representaciones de lo apocalíptico en cuatro escritores hispanoamericanos

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  • Fernando Burgos Memphis University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2995

Parole chiave:

heterogeneous visions of the apocalyptical, critical outlook of history, negativity of postmodernism, Spanish American short story, Lugones, Arlt, Iturra, Collyer

Abstract

This essay examines the portrayal of Apocalypses as rendered in the short stories of two Argentinean and two Chilean writers, starting with the text “La lluvia de fuego” by Lugones published at the beginning of the twentieth century and ending with three short stories published by Collyer in the twenty-one century.  The depiction of the apocalyptical encompasses the aesthetical discourse of  modernity—represented by Leopoldo Lugones’ and Roberto Arlt’s fiction—and postmodernity, this last plane corresponding to Carlos Iturra’s and Jaime Collyer’s work.  The diversity in the rendering of the topic in question reaffirms the heterogeneous scrutiny and visions encountered in both the philosophical and the religious realms.  Lugones’ rendition will defy the biblical prohibition of looking at the destruction of Gomorra not only by providing a detailed account of the horror narrated by a disembodied entity and witness of the fiery rain of fire descended into the sinful town but also by openly assuming the principle of pleasure of the fallen city.  In Arlt’s interpretation the entire planet is annihilated by fire as a result of an untenable sense of superiority found in the crossing of the new urban settings and the undeterred anti-humanistic nature of capitalism.  Iturra’s short story brings a vision of a malevolent postmodernity by painting a metropolitan dystopian scenario where human dignity has completely vanished.   Finally, in Collyer’s short story production one can see a consistent preoccupation with the representation of Apocalypses dealing not so much with the end of history but rather with how in the name of history and especially of a blind and senseless reverence toward progress and postmodern indulgence, controlling societies are the real machinery of apocalypses and the cause of its continuous resurgence. 

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Biografia autore

Fernando Burgos, Memphis University

Fernando Burgos es graduado de Profesor de Español por la Universidad de Chile y
doctorado en Lenguas Romances por la Universidad de Florida. Actualmente es
Profesor Titular en la Universidad de Memphis, Estados Unidos. La novela moderna
hispanoamericana (Madrid, 1985, 1990) Vertientes de la modernidad
hispanoamericana (Caracas, 1995), Cuentos de Hispanoamérica en el siglo XX (3
tomos, Madrid, 1997), Los escritores y la creación en Hispanoamérica (Madrid, 2004),
Un lector y un escritor tras el enigma: la narrativa de Enrique Jaramillo (Panamá, 2010)
se encuentran entre los doce libros que ha publicado. En el año 2012 publica en
coautoría con Fátima Noguera Conductividades posmodernas en la obra de Enrique
Jaramillo Levi. Ha contribuido con más de setenta artículos aparecidos en revistas
europeas, latinoamericanas y estadounidenses. Ha sido invitado a dictar conferencias
magistrales en la Universidad de Cincinnati, Estados Unidos y la Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos, Perú y distinguido con varios premios de investigación, tales
como el Dunavant Professorship, el Premio SPUR (Superior Performance in University
Research), y el Premio de Reconocimiento Distinguido en la Investigación y
Creatividad en las Humanidades.

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Pubblicato

2013-05-23

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Burgos, Fernando. 2013. «Representaciones De Lo apocalíptico En Cuatro Escritores Hispanoamericanos». Altre Modernità, n. 9 (maggio):112-34. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2995.

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