Pluralism and chorality in Fernando Vallejo’s La Virgen de los sicarios and El desbarrancadero

Mauricio Polanco Izquierdo

doi:10.17533//udea.lyl.n68a06

Pluralism and chorality in Fernando Vallejo’s La Virgen de los sicarios and El desbarrancadero

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Mauricio Polanco Izquierdo University Sorbonne Nouvelle

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https://doi.org/10.17533//udea.lyl.n68a06

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Fernando Vallejo, pluralism, aesthetic singularity, choral voice, community

Abstract

This paper develops an analysis, from a comparative approach, that describes the representational functionality of Fernando, character-narrator, in two novels by Fernando Vallejo. The ideas of Jean-Luc Nancy and Vincent Message are the basis of this work’s theoretical frame. First, Fernando is conceived as a pluralist character, whose construction stems from a community’s heterogeneous socio-political reality, the Colombian one, with which this character keeps an indissociable link. Secondly, it is shown how Fernando becomes an aesthetic singularity, which emerges from such a pluralist state of affairs.

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2015-08-20

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Polanco Izquierdo, M. (2015). Pluralism and chorality in Fernando Vallejo’s La Virgen de los sicarios and El desbarrancadero. Lingüística Y Literatura, 36(68), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.17533//udea.lyl.n68a06

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Vol. 36. Núm. 68 (2015): JULIO-DICIEMBRE, 2015

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Literary studies

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