La sociedad como criminalinterrelaciones genéricas y temáticas entre "2666", de Roberto Bolaño, y "Un minuto antes de la oscuridad", de Ismael Martínez Biurrun.

  1. Francisco David García Martín 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Tonos digital: revista de estudios filológicos

ISSN: 1577-6921

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 40

Type: Article

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Abstract

The work presented below is intended to show the complex interrelationship between science fiction and noir fiction. Both genders differ in their prospective scope, but this does not prevent them from being used as suitable tools for social criticism. Through the analysis of two works characterized by the hardness of the diegetic universes they present, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (specifically "La parte de los crímenes"), and the post-apocalyptic novel Un minuto antes de la oscuridad, by Ismael Martínez Biurrun, we can observe the oppressive and suffocating atmosphere of two fictionalized cities, Madrid and Santa Teresa. Dehumanized spaces where criminality, survival and death have become constituent elements of the environment. Murder and barbarism have taken over lawless places, where the individual is alone in the face of death and manipulation. Society as a whole becomes an accomplice and necessary collaborator of an institutional barbarism that seems to have no end. The spaces presented in the narrative show us a bleak universe in which justice and good seem to have disappeared. Biurrun and Bolaño create parallel diegenetic worlds in which human beings must survive on their own, in the face of the almost absolute abandonment in which they find the corresponding authorities. Both authors recreate situations in which anyone can become a monster, eliminating the conception of evil as something present only in a specific series of people.

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