Abstract

RIOS BAEZA, Felipe Adrián. Wieder, wider, weiden: casos de parodia y autoparodia en la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño. Valenciana [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.14, pp.59-87. ISSN 2007-2538.

Even though the term parody has been studied and identified as a lost genre from older times, contemporary literature has turned it into a creative procedure thanks to one of its most interesting facets: reiteration. In a determinant novel for his global literary project: Estrella distante (1996), the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) seems to encode his work in this key. In other words, the novel would not only narrate, in literary terms, the history of a pilot of the Chilean Airforce named Carlos Wieder, who, at the same time, is an artist and a murderer; but also in transtextual terms, according to the explanation by Bibiano O'Ryan (one of the characters), the last name Wieder would be associated with a certain recurrence in Bolaño's literature: parody as an axis, becoming, simultaneously, mockery and reiteration. Wieder, wider, weiden: saying again, against and in a perverse way. The phonetic association is, at the same time, a creative association. For Bolaño, the space of parody allow him to reiterate, refute and distort certain acts done by his characters, all of them located in some sort of "eternal U turn" that makes them, over and over again, kill, write, make love, read, talk, think. This article proposes a hypothesis to be proved: only in that re-telling, in that repetition of one text in a different context and in that parody, can the emphasis proposed by Bolaño in his literary work be appreciated.

Keywords : Roberto Bolaño; Parody; Reiteration; Border.

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