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PADILLA CHASING, Iván Vicente. The narrative of despair: El embarcadero de los incurables [The pier of the incurables](1998) by Fernando Cruz Kronfly. La Palabra [online]. 2015, n.27, pp.47-66. ISSN 0121-8530.

Before going into some details of the novel El embarcadero de los incurables [The pier of the incurables] (1998), through the issue of despair, this article seeks, first, to articulate this novel a narrative tradition and then place it in the whole work Fernando Cruz Kronfly. In general terms the problem and its romantic expression are understood as an aesthetic assessment of the crisis of modernity and its values, as well as taking a position against the assaults of feeling and the postmodern way of life. By way of example, with emphasis on novel type practiced by the author, in this condition the subjects of today and its insignificance in postmodern cities are analyzed.

Palabras clave : despair/hopelessness; Fernando Cruz Kronfly; novel; modernity; postmodernism.

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