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cuento, relato en español, escritor chileno, Chile, narrativa latinoamericana, escritura latinoamericana, Daniel Rojas Pachas, prosa, ficción, fiction

Abstract:

Leonardo Sanhueza, in his review of Carne (a collection of poems by Rojas Pachas) indicates that the author's writing is presented to us as a dystopian nightmare, to which we must add the peculiar mechanisms with which the author structures his texts. In Rancor we confront a montage of elements typical of the B series. The novel operates as a stylized reflection of our Latin American societies. Its rarefied atmosphere arises from the deformation of the ideals of success and the careerism of citizens in a hyperconnected world. Chile's National Literature Prize winner, Elvira Hernandez points out: The author, by conviction, is elsewhere. Passed through the quasi picaresque autobiographical sieve, by some resource not related to science fiction, he will also be on the other side of referentiality. Daniel Rojas Pachas knows about the vicissitudes of that once heroic authority: the history of the lost sin of originality, the erasure, the erasure, the decentering, the pulverization that are now commonplace. This ghost will probably reappear in another fiction. For the time being, in this confused and slight reality, in which the poet could have as much identity as anonymus, certain precautions are not superfluous, especially if the arrival of a copy, perhaps intervened, with Gombrowicz's text, Against Poets, should be imminent.