La ficcionalidad, los mundos posibles y el true crime sobre el narcotráfico: El caso de David Simon

In this work the fictional status of David Simon's works related to drug trafficking is analyzed, which can be considered within the subgenre of true crime, an evolution of the non-fiction novel or new journalism. The theoretical-critical instrument used is based on the theory of possible world...

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Autores: Rodríguez Pequeño, Fco. Javier, Rodríguez Santos, José María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/717339
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/717339
https://dx.doi.org/10.17811/arc.74.1.2024.655-679
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:mundos posibles
narcotráfico
Teoría de la ficción
true crime
David Simon Theory of fiction
possible worlds
drug trafficking
David Simon
Literatura
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Sumario:In this work the fictional status of David Simon's works related to drug trafficking is analyzed, which can be considered within the subgenre of true crime, an evolution of the non-fiction novel or new journalism. The theoretical-critical instrument used is based on the theory of possible worlds, more specifically, on a interpretation of this where the syntactic components of transformation are also considered fundamental, along with the semantic and pragmatic ones, for the fictional construction. of a text, sometimes contradicting the authors' claims to establish pacts of factuality with the readers of their works. In the case of the works of David Simon that are taken into consideration, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, origin of the famous TV series The Wire, the author uses the paratext to justify the non-fictional status of its works. Our purpose is to confront these paratexts with the main texts based on the previously mentioned theoretical developments with the objective of elucidating whether such claims can be sustained from the field of literary theory, concluding that this type of works should be assigned to the field of realistic fiction.