Genetic Criticism Put to the Test by Digital Technology: Sounding out the (mainly) Digital Genetic File of El Dorado by Robert Juan-Cantavella

• Autores: Bénédicte Vauthier
• Localización: Variants, ISSN 1573-3084, Nº. 12-13, 2016, págs. 163-186
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The opportunity to analyse the digital files used in the composition of Robert Juan-Cantavella's El Dorado (2008), the Spanish propagator of Gonzo Journalism, presents a fascinating test case to test the limits and opportunities of genetic criticism. Far from showing that the age of the computer ends all access to the genetic material, this study carefully lays out the wealth of material available to manuscript students. The data preserved on the author's USB stick ― file structures, file names, date stamps, etc. ― and the relation between these proves to be crucial to the reconstruction of the genetic sequence, the writing methods, and an understanding of the creation of Juan-Cantavella's poetics of fictionalizing reality.