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Ricardo Piglia: The plot as contemporary literary image subject distressed by the politics of Latin America
Roche By Michelle Rodriguez The subject of contemporary societies, plagued by personal tragedy resulting from policy failures, sees his fate as facing an invisible web of intrigue. It is on this metaphor of the conspiracy that Ricardo Piglia is his latest book, White Night (Anagram, 2010), which proposes a shift from the police to the epic narrative and proposes a new literary interpretation of the effects of policy American individuals on governing.
In his recent book, preceded by novels Breathing artificial (1980), The Absent City (1992) and can burn P (1997), was expressly Piglia approach the epic through the sharp experiences of his characters. So he said to Literal: Latin American Voices , during an interview in the latest edition of the Guadalajara Book Fair
- "We try to write novels that bring readers face characters that give us a dimension of experience much deeper, dramatic and intense, "he said then.
But White Night the writer born in 1940 in a province of Argentina called Adrogué, transcends genres. It not only creates a detective story at the beginning of the story to the crime detective investigating the bizarre Croce, but it approaches the classic hero in the correct characterization of Luca Belladonna and going from the epic of the detective genre, a feature that makes it unique to fourth novel.
The novel begins with the investigation into the murder of Tony Duran, a Puerto Rican mysterious tangled with Belladona twin "daughters and granddaughters of the founders of the people." Croce detective discovers the murderer for hire, but is in the search which occurred mastermind of the crime which prefigures the network of betrayal that surrounds the wealthy family.
The reader will soon become related to the researcher of the small province of Buenos Aires with Auguste Dupin in Edgar Allan Poe or the Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie. "The invention of the detective genre is the key," he says in his essay The Last Reader (2005) Piglia, for whom this character is a "new Hamlet (...) is in the area of \u200b\u200breading and decoding a way out of the ancient world "and" entering the world of pure reason. " Like the S Herlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Croce committed extravagances, such as sending anonymous letters to promote gossip or locked in a madhouse to think, "occasionally you have to be in a loony bin, or there must be a prisoner, to understand how things are in this country," he read that night White -. His eccentricity is the source of his wit, for the separation of the community allows the necessary clarity to "see social disturbance, detect evil and go to act," writes Piglia in that trial. Croce discovers why not discover anything, and faces a conspiracy whose plot can never fully reveal, as we read in his bitter reflection: "not true that you can restore order, not true provided the crime is solved ... There is no logic. We fight to restore the causes and deduce the effects, but we can never know the full network of intrigue. " With this insight detective defies traditional Piglia, whose triumph is to demonstrate the supremacy of reason and deductive methods to what Raymond Chandler called "the professional world of crime."
The track of a briefcase full of dollars signa detective genre change the epic, opening the possibility of a character in the classical tradition. Akin to Oedipus or Perseus, Luca Belladonna feat insists on maintaining its auto plant, although it against all odds. "It was the only man who knew the people and the party and the province (...) that had been clinging to an illusion, or rather a fixed idea, and the stubbornness had led to the catastrophe. Distrusted him and believed that the decision not to sell [the factory] was an attitude that explained all the misfortunes that had happened in life and also explained that had ended isolated and alone, like a ghost, in the factory empty, and never leave without seeing almost anybody, "White Night reads. Its depth epic is evident in the dilemma they face when attempting to reclaim the dollars his father had commanded to bring with Duran from the United States and were in the briefcase that appeared on the scene. You are presented with gross simplicity during the trial: if he accepted that he had committed the murder Dazai Yoshio, a Puerto Rican friend who had accused the judge Cueto mobile arguing a ridiculous passion, the case was resolved and Luca recovering the money he needed to save their factory. But, if not the guilt of the Japanese said, the case remained open and the evidence seized would remain for years, as evidence of the crime. The dilemma appears
the fabric of a dark plot whose research resembles a night hunt, in which more tracks found, you can never fully elucidate the magnitude of the lattice, as in throwing light on some aspects overshadow others. In this picture book's title refers as explained in chapter ten, when Croce and journalist Emilio Renzi, the character of the typical writer's novels Piglia-crossing the plains in a car with fingerprint-reading lamp on and "suddenly saw a hare, paralyzed with terror, white, motionless in the illuminated circle, like an apparition in the dark. " The research was lost since the beginning: it was a white night, a man facing a plot hatched in the dark.
Coordinate its work on a plot that illustrates the individual disability against the corrupt political machine is a wise author's prose about the political debate. During the conversation with Literal , professor of Hispanic literature at Princeton University stressed that it sees the plot as the structure that best illustrates the perception of the subject of the Community framework in which they live: "The great economic crisis occur individual tragedies that they themselves do not understand, because it seems a dark world and imagine a plot to destroy them personally. " White night that way again transcends the boundaries of the novel police, but this time not only to the epic narrative, but to the political test. "Literature is also a political police, although the relationship is not explicit, although one does not know who was governor at the time of Chandler may well perceive the relationship between corruption, money, political power and police structures of era. "
Piglia's interest in politics is limited to its effects on everyday life and therefore prefer the view of the common man caught in the bureaucratic web of lies, as Luca Belladonna. Thus, the novel sets out an analysis of the political history of Argentina, not with the bombast that Piglia critical literature Boom, concerned with the description of brutal dictatorships from its ruler, but by the fine anecdote which allows the contemporary reader to identify with the conflicts of the Argentine in the early seventies that describes the book. "It is difficult today, fortunately, give a single answer to what relations between politics and literature. At another time we said that novels were investigating the power, but it was the explicit political power and now we have a different relationship with power, "said the author, referring to relations Latin American literary tradition that preceded it and his own works with the policy.
Through the union of the police, the epic and political essay, the writer who said "the only thing that defines the novel as a narrative with characters outside the tragedy, because in the latter's characters respond to a destination, an important tradition and speak with the gods without understanding their messages "- beyond the tradition of Latin American literature and inserted into the heterogeneous postmodern tendencies.
is not the first time Piglia inserted genres, says he has worked with "novels connected with discussions essays, as artificial respiration, and others who are traffic reports as The Absent City ". The diversity of genres that night out in White creed literary evidence, according to which the hybrid is the space where "are spending the most interesting things that are being written now in Latin America and the United States." White
night, when structured on the metaphor of the plot, is an evolution from the detective story to the epic narrative which can be seen through the peculiar characters and the gentle detective Croce Luca Belladonna and both oppose the first the system and the second to know what they face, ending in the same tangled web of political intrigue. Therefore, at the end of the novel the reader will attack the unsettling knowledge that, in the states run by the barbarians, the dirty strings that move the conflicts between men are not only invisible but inevitable.
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