Literary Experience and Dissolution of the Subject in Contemporary Latin American Narrative

Abstract

This article’s proposal is to discuss the conditions in which two novels – El mal de la taiga by Cristina Rivera Garza and Leñador o las ruinas continentales by Mike Wilson – explore the un-personalization processes their heroes self-apply, in a desertion of the fellow’s limits that projects themselves to new dimensions of the common. The link with the others, the relationship with the environment, and the mutation induce the un-personalization as a progressive stripping of themselves. Those transformations reported are reflected with reading (and writing) experiences that both novels are activating, practices that induces new literature consumption and appropriation modes. As a matter of synthesis, in those pieces, the diegetic exploration of new living modes is corresponded with formal experimentations that, as well as they are powering reading experiences of the “out of yourself”, are underlining the collective networks that supports any artistic production.