Subject and material world in the chilean narrative of the 90s and 2000s: stoics, sceptics and epicureans

Authors

  • Ignacio Álvarez Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Abstract

The article presents a general approach for the analysis and interpretation of Chilean narratives written and published during the past two decades. According to the relationship established with the material world, we postulate that writings and texts can be stoic, skeptical or epicurean.Stoic texts melancholically long for a contact with their lost objects, skeptical ones doubt that this is possible, and epicurean texts –which do not distinguish between perception and imagination–, exasperate symbolic production as a contact with material production. This article coordinates this criterion with other classifications of the period, and also outlines the political projections that such criterion may bear.

Keywords:

Chilean novel, postmodernism, skepticism, stoicism, epicureanism