2020
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Roxana Gacea Ilasca, « Mutations dans l'écriture narrative contemporaine: de la fragmentation postmoderne à la poétique réticulaire dans l'oeuvre de J. Carrión, A. Fernández Mallo et V. L. Mora », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.wln1g7
The second half of the 20th century was dominated by the postmodern paradigm, which manifested itself, among other aspects, in narrative writing, by means of a fragmented structure. At the beginning of the new millennium, the expansion of the World Wide Web seems to lead to a change of perspective and favour various aesthetic mutations, as it starts envisaging the fragment within a larger, reticular textual architecture. What counts is no longer the discontinuity between tiles but the weaving of pieces together, through links and nodes. Spanish writer Vicente Luis Mora designates this new period as “Pangea”, referring to an initial unity of the world, shattered by postmodernity and subsequently restored by the new technologies and media. As early as the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan drew attention to the shaping of the global village, a concept later updated by Manuel Castells, in his study of the network society. As regards the literary text, such socio-technological modifications favour the unfolding of narrative techniques based on patterns such as Deleuze et Guattari’s rhizome or Dällenbach’s mosaic. However, in the 21st century, one might notice the emergence of what Geneviève Champeau calls “the reticular text”. In Spanish narrative, one may find examples of such reticular writing in the works of Agustín Fernández Mallo (his Nocilla trilogy), in Mora’s novel Alba Cromm or in Jorge Carrión’s non-fictional text Crónica de viaje. The study of these literary works will serve the purpose of illustrating how 21st century narrative manages to transcend the postmodern paradigm and its aesthetics of fragmentation, and posit, in exchange, the reticular poetics of Pangea.