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In this paper we analyze the novels La descomposición (2007), by Hernan Ronsino, and Bajo este sol tremendo (2009), by Carlos Busqued , as texts in which the real is configured through the allegory of ruin (Benjamin 2012 [ 1928 ]) as suggestive images of social and subjective processes of deterioration. In both novels, these images allegorize a world in a state of decomposition and in which the past survives in the present as remnants of the real (Garramuño 2009). Both texts open onto the overlapping time frames, but whereas in the case of La descomposición the past constantly emerges as a way to influence and to question the present, in Bajo este sol tremendo the understanding of the past seems sealed and all that the text enables is a rapt contemplation of the remnants of the real. |
