| Titre | De neuróticos urbanos modernos | |
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| Auteur | Inke Gunia | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 9, 2013 Villes américaines du XXIème siècle : réalités et représentations sociales, culturelles et linguistiques | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thématique |
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| Résumé anglais |
« The expectation : to be waiting for something. Living on the edge [ ... ] And then the descent » - this is the sad balance of Jonathan's life. Jonathan is the protagonist of the novel La expectativa of the Argentine Damián Tabarovsky (*1967). In the years of hyperinflation in the late '80s, Jonathan, from Buenos Aires middle class, achieves a fortune by monetary market speculation until the economic crisis makes him lose all, his material goods and his social prestige in the quarter of Villa del Parque. The reader accompanies him in this uprooting situation wandering aimlessly through the streets of Buenos Aires. Another downfall is told in the autofictional novel Autobiografía médica, whose protagonist Dami is a sociologist in a consulting firm specialized in media. The article analyses the relationship between the city and its two protagonists, one of them is gradually losing his ability to perceive himself as part of his environment and the other must recognize that his life is « trapped by the binary and radical principle of repetition and banality » and « escaped [ ... ] all expectations ». For the two stories Tabarovsky chose very specific narrative situations. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/4181 |
