Ecos de "Fight Club"

pensamiento categórico, estrategias narrativas y radicalismo político en "Adjustment Day", de Chuck Palahniuk

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https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5538

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Chuck Palahniuk, pensamiento categórico, posthumanismo, Borges, Fight Club, Adjustment Day

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Este artículo estudia la novela Adjustment Day, de Chuck Palahniuk, como una crítica satírica del radicalismo político de los EE.UU. y como una advertencia de los peligrosos efectos ideológicos que la narrativa ejerce sobre nuestra comprensión posthumanista de la realidad. Para alcanzar sus fines, el novelista combina tres estrategias estilísticas. En primer lugar, crea una historia satírica que denuncia la situación de la vida política estadounidense, los peligros que encierra una corrección política radicalizada y el presente riesgo de revoluciones populistas. En segundo lugar, el escritor utiliza referencias metaficcionales a Fight Club y a otras obras literarias y teorías críticas para advertir sobre los peligrosos efectos que el poder de la narrativa puede alcanzar. Finalmente, Palahniuk abandona el estilo minimalista que había utilizado en sus primeras y más conocidas novelas en favor de una voz narrativa heterodiegética y omnisciente que, sin embargo, al combinarse con múltiples focalizadores internos, apunta a la necesidad de entender la realidad desde posiciones que eviten el pensamiento categórico.

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Francisco Collado Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza

Francisco Collado-Rodríguez is Professor of American Literature at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza, where he teaches courses on 20th-century and recent American Literature and Popular Culture. A former President of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), he has published articles and essays on writers such as Thomas Pynchon, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Bharati Mukherjee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Bobbie Ann Mason. He has also authored and edited several books on contemporary fiction.

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22-12-2022

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Collado Rodríguez, F. (2022). Ecos de "Fight Club": pensamiento categórico, estrategias narrativas y radicalismo político en "Adjustment Day", de Chuck Palahniuk. Journal of English Studies, 20, 3–23. https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5538

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