La ficción entre trauma real e imaginario: "Shelter" de José Emilio Pacheco

• Autores: Margherita Cannavacciuolo
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 1, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012), págs. 396-407
• Idioma: español
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  • The study analyzes the short story �Shelter� (1964) by José Emilio Pacheco (México D.F., 1939), published in the volume La sangre de Medusa y otros cuentos marginales (1991). The apocalypse marks the narrative construction of a traumatic imaginary related with dichotomy between real and imaginary trauma. The protagonist�s fear of a Third World War produces a suspension of reality�s principle and the projection of his interiority, leading to a fracture into the story between the level of imagination and the real experience. The texts reflects the configuration of a discourse where trauma plays as the significant in the organization of subjectivity and fiction