law of writing in Our lady of the assassins, by Fernando Vallejo
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p419-445Keywords:
Fernando Vallejo, Maurice Blanchot, Ambiguity, Literature, DemocracyAbstract
This article, referring to the novel Our lady of the assassins, by Fernando Vallejo, analyzes the wandering movement of its narrator with the assassin Alexis as a movement of democratic expression conducted by literary writing. The democracy present in the narrative is far from a reflection on the social and political situation of real Colombia, as the democracy depicted by the narrator of Vallejo, once transposed into a literature writing that is developed en abyme, explores other resources only available in the fictional space, consequently creating a suitable democracy, a unique and fictional democracy. This article has as its main methodology the essays by writer Maurice Blanchot, who understands fictional space as a space with its own laws and rules, not simply a reflection of the real world.
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