Imagination in the Urban Space of Luis Aguilar-Monsalve’s Narrative

This article poses that the short fiction of Ecuadorian narrator Luis Aguilar Monsalve explores new ways of representing reality. His efforts result in a work on the fringe of the fantastic and the postmodern. A reader can see its narratological desire to step away from mere mimetic representation a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Medina, Manuel F.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1424
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/1424
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Luis Aguilar Monsalve
Ecuador
cuento
narratología
voces
mímesis
espacios
representación
realidad
short story
narratology
narrative voices
city
spaces
representation of reality
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Sumario:This article poses that the short fiction of Ecuadorian narrator Luis Aguilar Monsalve explores new ways of representing reality. His efforts result in a work on the fringe of the fantastic and the postmodern. A reader can see its narratological desire to step away from mere mimetic representation and successfully attempt to discover new ways of telling that evoke the use of simulacrum, virtual reality, and other models that question the persistence of real time. Within this framework, we find a predilection for narrating the city as a space where human beings often unsuccessfully struggle to communicate with each other in urban areas saturated with human traits and emotions.