El Horror Como Forma
Resumen del Libro
Overall, this dissertation proposes to think horror as a literary construction. To that end, the research develops an extensive reflection on the narrative works of Juan Jose Saer and Roberto Bolaño. The aim is, first, to carry out a theoretical study to formulate hypotheses about the relevance of using horror as critical notion, and secondly, to point out a problematic semantic field, whose banner is the constant allusive reference to horror as a source of meaning for the representation of historical and political disasters in literature. The importance given to the notion of form determines the perspective in which horror is conceived in this dissertation. At the same time, it indicates that horror as a form is usually presented as an unthought-of notion in the literary criticism field, particularly in the studies that have analyzed the works studied here. Within this context of analysis, two major areas on which both literatures build their variation, expansion and reflection of the literary representation of horror are identified. These refer specifically to the importance of the visual register and to the repeated episodes that narrate violent interventions on human bodies. Horror is a formal effect displayed as part of the process of dialogue and reflexivity inherent to writing. Put another way, -from the corpus selected to study the movements of horror as form- it can be asserted that it is around a concern about the visual aspect and the arrangement of bodies, that the textual trajectories confer horror the form-theme that is dear to these fictions.
