Contextos, pretextos e intertextos en la irresistible novela criminal de José Luis Ramos Escobar
This article proposes a reading of José Luis Ramos Escobar’s third novel, El irresistible mundo de Benedicto, as crime fiction. It envisions the text by the Puerto Rican writer as an exposé of the institutional crimes involved in the establishment of sugar cane plantations in the island. These crime...
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I15-R206-article-2942018-03-28T20:06:30Z Contextos, pretextos e intertextos en la irresistible novela criminal de José Luis Ramos Escobar Morell, Hortensia R. Novela criminal Plantación Petroquímica Literatura puertorriqueña Crime novel Plantation Petrochemical Industry Puerto Rican Literature This article proposes a reading of José Luis Ramos Escobar’s third novel, El irresistible mundo de Benedicto, as crime fiction. It envisions the text by the Puerto Rican writer as an exposé of the institutional crimes involved in the establishment of sugar cane plantations in the island. These crimes are pervasive in the nineteenth century and create unending repercussions in the ecological disasters of the petrochemical industry in the twentieth century. The novel’s vision of society coincides with that of the hard core or noir novel, but crime is so pervasive that the only possible detective or hermeneutic activity in the text is left to the reader. In light of Brecht’s (and Piglia’s) question around the capitalist crime of founding banks, the novel poses the question, isn’t it a crime to found a plantation? Este ensayo propone la lectura de El irresistible mundo de Benedicto, del puertorriqueño José Luis Ramos Escobar, en tanto novela criminal. Entiende que el texto denuncia la presencia institucional del crimen en la isla de Puerto Rico encarnado en la plantación cañera, presencia que atraviesa todos los niveles de la sociedad decimonónica y que no cesa en sus repercusiones ambientales de la petroquímica del siglo veinte. Observa que, si bien su visión coincide con la de la novela negra, el grado de penetración institucional del crimen imposibilita la presencia en el texto de la agencia hermenéutica del detective, constituyendo al lector en único investigador. A la luz de la pregunta de Brecht (y Piglia) en torno al crimen capitalista de fundar bancos, la novela plantea la pregunta, ¿no es un crimen fundar una plantación? CETYCLI 2015-03-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/294 10.35305/b.v4i08.294 Badebec; Vol. 4 Núm. 08 (2015): Marzo 2015 1853-9580 spa https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/294/273 |
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This article proposes a reading of José Luis Ramos Escobar’s third novel, El irresistible mundo de Benedicto, as crime fiction. It envisions the text by the Puerto Rican writer as an exposé of the institutional crimes involved in the establishment of sugar cane plantations in the island. These crimes are pervasive in the nineteenth century and create unending repercussions in the ecological disasters of the petrochemical industry in the twentieth century. The novel’s vision of society coincides with that of the hard core or noir novel, but crime is so pervasive that the only possible detective or hermeneutic activity in the text is left to the reader. In light of Brecht’s (and Piglia’s) question around the capitalist crime of founding banks, the novel poses the question, isn’t it a crime to found a plantation? |
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