Representaciones de lo apocalíptico en cuatro escritores hispanoamericanos

• Autores: Fernando Burgos
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. 9, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Apocalisse 2012), págs. 112-135
• Idioma: español
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  • 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