Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo

This work analyzes Boca de lobo (2000), by Sergio Chejfec, starting from the hypothesis that the conjectural future that is constructed in the text has the form of a foggy and overwhelming future. Correlatively, that the industrial suburb is designed more on the traces of conceptual and aesthetic tr...

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Autor principal: Guerra, Juan José
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Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2022
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Sergio Chejfec
melancholy
spectrality
space
temporality
melancolía
espectralidad
espacio
temporalidad
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spelling I10-R10-article-396232022-12-08T18:55:50Z Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo Melancolía y espectralidad en Boca de lobo de Sergio Chejfec Guerra, Juan José Sergio Chejfec melancholy spectrality space temporality Sergio Chejfec melancolía espectralidad espacio temporalidad This work analyzes Boca de lobo (2000), by Sergio Chejfec, starting from the hypothesis that the conjectural future that is constructed in the text has the form of a foggy and overwhelming future. Correlatively, that the industrial suburb is designed more on the traces of conceptual and aesthetic traditions than on an empirical or referential basis, and in this sense the urban space is built through mechanisms of disfigurement and fading that tend to blur the real. The novel is built on the basis of an inquiry into the effect that the remains of the past produce in the present. We interpret these remains in a triple dimension: subjective, to the extent that they refer to a love bond and the aftermath after the breakup; historical, because they allude to the world of industrial work at its point of disintegration; and literary, insofar as they allow to hear resonances of diverse cultural traditions that range from social realism and Marxism to gaucho literature. The three dimensions are imbricated by the concepts of “melancholy” (Freud, Butler) and “spectrality” (Derrida), since they express, respectively, the impossibility of giving up the object and the phantasmatic persistence of the past. Este trabajo analiza Boca de lobo (2000) de Sergio Chejfec partiendo de la hipótesis de que en el texto se construye un futuro conjetural que tiene la forma de un porvenir brumoso y abrumador. Correlativamente, que el suburbio industrial se diseña más sobre la huella de tradiciones conceptuales y estéticas que sobre una base empírica o referencial, y en ese sentido el espacio urbano está construido por medio de mecanismos de desfiguración y desvanecimiento que tienden a esfumar lo real. La novela propone una indagación sobre el efecto que los restos del pasado producen en el presente. El trabajo interpreta esos restos en una triple dimensión: subjetiva, en la medida en que se refieren a un vínculo amoroso y las secuelas tras la ruptura; histórica, porque aluden al mundo del trabajo industrial en su punto de desintegración; y literaria, en tanto dejan oír resonancias de diversas tradiciones culturales que van del realismo social y el marxismo a la literatura gauchesca. Las tres dimensiones están imbricadas por los conceptos de “melancolía” (Freud, Butler) y “espectralidad” (Derrida), dado que expresan, respectivamente, la imposibilidad de dar por perdido el objeto y la persistencia fantasmática del pasado. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2022-12-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/39623 Recial; Vol. 13 Núm. 22 (2022): Dossier: La cuestión andina y sus letras coloniales. Homenaje a la Dra. Elena Altuna; 253-269 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v13.n22 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/39623/39722 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/39623/39723 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic Sergio Chejfec
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spectrality
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Sergio Chejfec
melancolía
espectralidad
espacio
temporalidad
spellingShingle Sergio Chejfec
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temporality
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melancolía
espectralidad
espacio
temporalidad
Guerra, Juan José
Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
topic_facet Sergio Chejfec
melancholy
spectrality
space
temporality
Sergio Chejfec
melancolía
espectralidad
espacio
temporalidad
author Guerra, Juan José
author_facet Guerra, Juan José
author_sort Guerra, Juan José
title Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
title_short Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
title_full Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
title_fullStr Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
title_full_unstemmed Melancholy and spectrality in Sergio Chejfec’s Boca de lobo
title_sort melancholy and spectrality in sergio chejfec’s boca de lobo
description This work analyzes Boca de lobo (2000), by Sergio Chejfec, starting from the hypothesis that the conjectural future that is constructed in the text has the form of a foggy and overwhelming future. Correlatively, that the industrial suburb is designed more on the traces of conceptual and aesthetic traditions than on an empirical or referential basis, and in this sense the urban space is built through mechanisms of disfigurement and fading that tend to blur the real. The novel is built on the basis of an inquiry into the effect that the remains of the past produce in the present. We interpret these remains in a triple dimension: subjective, to the extent that they refer to a love bond and the aftermath after the breakup; historical, because they allude to the world of industrial work at its point of disintegration; and literary, insofar as they allow to hear resonances of diverse cultural traditions that range from social realism and Marxism to gaucho literature. The three dimensions are imbricated by the concepts of “melancholy” (Freud, Butler) and “spectrality” (Derrida), since they express, respectively, the impossibility of giving up the object and the phantasmatic persistence of the past.
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