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    De ruinas humanas y antiutopías: representaciones sobre la crisis de las esferas política y social en la novela latinoamericana reciente.
    (Universidad de Concepción, 2024) Tolentino Herrera, Williams Enrique; Fuentes Leal, Mariela Jinett
    This research examines the existence of a link between human ruin’s representations and the establishment of a criticism about the crisis of social and political utopias in the Latin American novel of 21st century, based on reading three works: Abril Rojo (2006) by the Peruvian Santiago Roncagliolo, La forma de las ruinas (2015) by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Los caídos (2018) by the Cuban Carlos Manuel Álvarez. Firstly, a systematization of main theoretical-conceptual references related to the evolution of representations of ruins, utopia and violence in the Western aesthetic and philosophical tradition is carried out. This journey is also accompanied by an attention to several contemporary philosophers and intellectuals who have addressed these three concepts in parallel with their concerns for nature and human life. In a second moment, the development of the Latin American imaginary on these concepts is characterized from the interaction between literature and politics, while the contributions made by literary studies to the analysis of the selected novels are summarized. All of this, as a preamble to the textual analysis of the narrative corpus in order to identify the different human ruins represented and to interpret their critical and allegorical nuances regarding topics such as: the subject, memory and historical legacy of violence in sociopolitical contexts of Peru, Colombia and Cuba. Textual analysis pays attention to ruins in their anatomical, cognitive and affective dimensions, which refers to the tragic meaning of human life and make possible an invasion of the past into the narrative present, with effects on the critical understanding of history and the conversion of the present in an anti-utopia. The methodology assumed is transdisciplinary and is based on the philosophical thought of authors as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, María Zambrano, Emil Cioran, and Jacques Rancière, among others.
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