Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MONTIEL, Emiliano. Living in Debt. The Narcolepsies of Wasabi by Alan Pauls. Acta poét [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.1, pp.137-151.  Epub Apr 25, 2022. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2022.43.1.458727.

The aim of this paper is to explore and to analyze the set of formal elements that makes up the time of Wasabi by Alan Pauls. The topic of debt is here understood as our starting point. There are three debts: one extratextual and two purely economic (contracted within fiction). Our hypothesis is that the three debts, linked together, are not only paid fictionally with the child born at the end of the text (analogy between art and life); nor only with the monstrosity of the cyst (link between body and writing), but with time. Narcolepsies, those chronic sleep disorders are, well looked at, temporary coins through which fiction collects the debt that the writer contracts with it.

Keywords : Anachronism; Market; Contract; Alan Pauls; Contemporary Argentine Narrative.

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