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Dziedzictwo Pabla Escobara. Trauma i perspektywa ofiar w powieści Hałas spadających rzeczy Juana Gabriela Vásqueza

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Jastrzębska A. S.

Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media

2019

vol. 4

issue 2

101-113

In the contemporary hispanic literature, one of the dominant phenomena is the so-called "narconovela"or „narconarrative” tendency, i.e. fictions that show the violent reality of the drug trafficking and the broadly defined (social, cultural, ethical, axiological, etc.) consequences of the cartels' activities. The narconovela reached its peak at the end of the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. In recent years, however, the Colombian narconovela has seen the emergence of a tendency of a settlement with the Pablo Escobar era, attempts to work out the time of the great drug cartels and the war waged by the drug barons against the Colombian state; a war that has affected public figures but has also, and perhaps above all, affected ordinary citizens. In the generation of writers born in the late 1960s and 1970s, the era of narcoterrorism is an important point of reference as a formative period in which they were children, adolescents, entering adulthood with a sense of constant threat, uncertainty and omnipresent violence. Nowadays, in novels such as El ruido de las cosas al caer (Polish translation by Tomasz Pindel) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born in 1973), published in 2011, or the posterior El cielo a tiros by Jorge Franco (born in 1964), published in 2018, the authors return to their experiences from that period, creating literary attempts to summarize, settle accounts with those times and the legacy they left behind in the generation of children and young people of that time. In the paper 'Pablo Escobar’s Heritage. Trauma and the Perspective of the Victims in El ruido de las cosas al caer by Juan Gabriel Vásquez’, Adriana Sara Jastrzębska analyses the novel as an example of the first literary attempt of overcoming trauma and settling accounts with the past, indicating at the same time the privileged perspective and the voice of the victims and the subversion of the dominating paradigm of the aesthetic and ethical configuration of the represented world within the narconovela tendency.

Narconovela colombiana: narrativa de corte thanático

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Jastrzębska A. S.

Sztuka Ameryki Łacińskiej

2019

issue 9

193-210

Niniejszy artykuł stanowi swoisty przegląd zastosowań motywu śmierci w narracyjnej gramatyce wybranych kolumbijskich narkopowieści. Zostały tu omówione powieści należące do kategorii novela sicaresca (powieści Fernando Vallejo, Jorge Franco, Arturo Alape), niewątpliwie „tanatyczne” w sposobie ukształtowania postaci nastoletnich płatnych morderców, w których życiu gwałtowna, przedwczesna śmierć wydaje się nieuniknionym przeznaczeniem. W drugiej części tekstu został omówiony rytualny wymiar śmierci przedstawiony w powieściach Comandante Paraíso Gustava Álvareza Gardeazábala oraz Leopardo al sol („Lampart w słońcu”) Laura Restrepo. Ostatnia część artykułu jest poświęcona ikonicznemu i symbolicznemu wymiarowi literackich reprezentacji śmierci Pabla Escobara w El ruido de las cosas al caer („Hałas spadających rzeczy”) Juana Gabriela Vásqueza i Happy Birthday, capo José Libardo Porrasa.

This article comprises an inventory of the motif of death within the narrative syntax of several Colombian narco novels. “Sicaresca” novels by Fernando Vallejo, Jorge Franco and Arturo Alape will be discussed. The construct of the characters, young contract killers, whose violent and premature deaths are seen as their fate, will be shown to display an indisputably “Thanatotic” facet. In the second part of this article, the ritual dimension of death, presented in the novels “Comandante Paraíso” by Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal and “Leopardo al sol” by Laura Restrepo, will be analysed. The last part will be dedicated to the iconic and symbolic dimension of Pablo Escobar’s death depicted in “El ruido de las cosas al caer” by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and “Happy birthday, capo” by José Libardo Porras.

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1 Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media

1 Sztuka Ameryki Łacińskiej

2 Jastrzębska A. S.

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Dziedzictwo Pabla Escobara. Trauma i perspektywa ofiar w powieści Hałas spadających rzeczy Juana Gabriela Vásqueza

Narconovela colombiana: narrativa de corte thanático