Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Jul 2020)
To live in the open: the post-apocalyptic chronotope in Frío, by Rafael Pinedo
Abstract
Unlike traditional approaches to apocalyptic myth, post-apocalyptic fictions focus on narrating what happens after an event conceived as final and, therefore, they are not interested in the causes leading to the collapse of civilization, but what remains after the catastrophe. In this way, it could be said that the elements that characterize this type of literature, are the chronotope, its construct, and the paradigmatic character that emerges from it: the survivor, on other words, the life that resists in the midst of the most absolute precariousness. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which Frío (2013), one of the novels that integrates the trilogy of the Argentinian writer Rafael Pinedo (1954-2006), builds a particular post-apocalyptic chronotope that invites us to imagine new modes of subjectivation and community impossible to be thought of in a world before the apocalypse.
