Gaiola de esperar tempestades

Abstract

This work is divided into two parts: an essay and a fiction. The essay consists of a knowledge production and research project that can be divided into three stages. The first one addresses the crisis of the modern paradigm, based on objectivity, on cause and effect relations, on the compartmentalization of complex phenomena and on the predictability of stable laws. It presents the factual and ideological reasons that led to the shudder of rational epistemology, whose application leveraged multiple scientific discoveries until the twentieth century. In the sequence, the most significant ideas and conceptions that emerged in this field of uncertainties that we call postmodernity, as opposed to the previous model, are outlined. The second section of the essay establishes the link between the considerations of the opening chapters and the specific theme of literature. Studying the techniques used by contemporary narratives to confront complex reality, we can see how the characteristics associated with the postmodern paradigm are absorbed by literary writing. Representative authors, with works published between the end of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century, serve as a basis for the analysis. Finally, in order to transform the study into an achievable project of writing, some directions and positions that literature can take on the polyphonic truths and disbeliefs that seem to be inextricably entangled in the contemporary world are proposed. Since it brings into fictional conflicts the real problems that the artistic sensibility is capable of perceiving, literature is taken as a means of recovering - with the aesthetic and intellectual artifices inherent to it - the reality that has lost its perspective. The fictional part is composed by the novel Gaiola de Esperar Tempestades, written from the reflections, readings and ideas that constitute the essay.