Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Mar 2018)
Last inflections of the Argentine narrative of terror: Celso Lunghi's novels
Abstract
In recent years Terror as a genre has been leaking the current Argentine narrative: the ghost and the zombie are both characters of literary and film terror that have been reoriented towards political readings, either about the national History linked to state terrorism either in a biopolitical key. Coexists with these ideas a new way of narrating in which the Ominous breaks in the way of the recovery of the old themes of the narrative of terror (Occultism, Satanism, presence of the monstrous Supernatural and popular legends) in a complex narrative framework, full of self-referentiality and parodic winks that coexist with that effect of horror that seems incompatible with reason. This is the case of some novels and stories by Luciano Lamberti and Celso Lunghi. Mariana Enríquez and Samantha Schweblin have opened also a path in that direction. In Me verás volver (2013) and Seis buitres (2016), the two Celso Lunghi´s novels that I will deal with, there is a twist that combines an interest -not so visible in other authors- for both social and family violence and for reflecting the ways of narrating them.
