Abstract

CATALIN, Mariana. THE GULLIBLE SUPERSTITION OF A NATURAL CATASTROPHE: THE END’S POSSIBILITIES IN O. COELHO’S LOS INVERTEBRABLES AND BORNEO. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.17, pp.75-94. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis20189.17.05.

Between 2003 and 2006, Oliverio Coelho published his trilogy composed by Los invertebrables, Borneo and Promesas naturales. In the framework of a larger study about the imaginaries for “after the end” in contemporary Argentinian narrative, the present work analyzes how the first two avatars of the series configure this imaginary. I study the place that the State occupies in these fictions, the ways in which a “ciphered” type of reading is used, and the tensions that arise around the (in)definition of the human as a way of conquering the outside.

Keywords : imaginary for after the end; Oliverio Coelho; contemporary Argentine narrative; archaic/contemporary; literary criticism.

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