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Les textes de l’écrivain argentin Juan José Saer (1937-2005) construisent une œuvre unique à partir d’un processus typiquement balzacien, la récurrence des personnages dans un lieu, la « zona », donnant l’impression de créer une « comédie humaine » ou une saga. Mais la fragmentation, qui traverse l’ensemble du corpus tant dans la récurrence (de personnages, lieux, situations, temps), que dans l’intrigue, la représentation du réel ou l’écriture, introduisant de l’hétérogénéité et de l’indétermination, le rapprocherait plutôt du Nouveau Roman. C’est donc la fragmentation, plutôt qu’une unité préétablie, qui donne sa cohérence à l’ensemble. La « théorie négative » de Saer, qui lui permet d’écrire contre certains modèles perçus comme « totalitaires », s’articule de façon cohérente avec la place importante qu’il laisse au lecteur, dans les interstices entre deux fragments. La cohérence de l’ensemble est un effet de lecture délibéré et, plus que l’auteur, c’est désormais le lecteur qui est le garant de l’unité de l’œuvre. / Together, the texts written by Argentinian author Juan José Saer (1937-2005) build a unique opus, through the typically Balzacian process of recurring characters staged within a setting, « la zona », in a saga bearing some resemblance to Balzac’s « comédie humaine». But the fragmentation that pervades the body of work, not merely in its recurring motifs or structures (characters, settings, situations, time-frames), but in its very plot, its representation of reality and its aesthetics of the heterogenous and the indeterminate, rather liken it to the « Nouveau Roman ». Fragmentation, rather than a pre-established unity, gives the work its coherence as a whole. Saer’s « negative theory », which allows him to write against a number of models he perceives as « totalitarian », is coherently articulated with the essential role given to the reader, in the gaps between two fragments. The coherence of the whole relies on reader reception ; rather than with the author, the unity of the opus rests with the reader her/himself.

In addition to coverage in the national and international media of the ongoing violence in Mexico related to the drug trade, there has been growing interest in fictional representations of the Mexican drug trade, its origins and social context. There is now a considerable body of written narratives that have been christened narconovelas. A small number of academic works has charted the emergence of the narconovela and sought to examine how drug traffickers have been represented and evaluated in fiction. However, very little attention has been paid to the aesthetic qualities of ‘narco-literature’. This study examines four of the most highly-regarded works in detail: Balas de plata (2008), by Élmer Mendoza; Los minutos negros (2006), by Martín Solares; Contrabando (2008), by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda; and Trabajos del reino (2004), by Yuri Herrera. So embedded is the phenomenon of drug trafficking in northern Mexican culture, so suffused with cliché is its representation in other media, that to write about the topic with originality and ethical nuance is difficult. This thesis accounts for the distinct choices made by the four authors in question to address this difficulty of representation in the structure, style and tone of their novels. The self-awareness exhibited by these works of fiction regarding the challenges of representing their subject matter render them the most sophisticated examples yet created of the so-called narconovela.

Cuando hablamos de una epidemia, entendemos el fenómeno de una enfermedad que infecta y se propaga. Las palabras que usamos para describir el contagio frecuentemente instilan la enfermedad con características personificadas. Dentro de la época de la guerra fría, este fenómeno discursivo entraba en unas narrativas nacionales de paranoia del contagio del otro. En este tesis, presento un análisis de la epidemia que junta, en vez de diferenciar, el carácter infeccioso de la enfermedad y la ideología. Pretendo sintetizar temas tan variados como el VIH/sida, el lenguaje discursivo y el neocolonialismo en un mundo definido dentro de un contexto de la guerra Fría. Examino la retórica empleada para describir la epidemia del sida en los Estados Unidos y en América Latina, y cómo estos discursos eran apropiados por varios estados con propósito de marginalizar y condenar a las comunidades homosexuales.

A presente tese pretende, a partir da análise dos romances Lavoura arcaica (1975), de Raduan Nassar, Terra sonâmbula (1992), de Mia Couto, e Crônica de uma morte anunciada (1981), de Gabriel García Márquez, estabelecer um diálogo entre romance e mitologia. Sob tal perspectiva, a tese procura examinar como se dá a interação do tempo mitológico com o tempo histórico e o papel da reinterpretação dos mitos e sua repercussão nas obras literárias escolhidas. Para desenvolver tal proposta, apresentaremos lineamentos teóricos básicos que nos permitirão definir os elementos caracterizadores da presença do mitológico nos textos ficcionais selecionados para análise. Apontaremos, em primeiro lugar, a alusão a um determinado mito reconhecível; em seguida, a presença de elementos rituais que aí estabeleçam a conexão do mito com o sagrado; e, por último, o papel da palavra como elemento fundamental que reatualiza, preserva e difunde a memória do sagrado, isto é, do mitológico. Os romances escolhidos constituem verdadeiros exemplos dos processos de experimentação desenvolvidos em cada um desses campos o mito, o rito, a palavra numa prática artística que congrega diferentes maneiras de ver o mundo, assim como de reinterpretá-lo criativamente por meio de seus respectivos imaginários. O objetivo central de nosso trabalho é, pois, mostrar que a presença de elementos mitológicos nos três romances constitui o componente estrutural básico das três narrativas e que essa presença se manifesta de modo específico em cada uma das obras analisadas. / This analysis of the novels Lavoura arcaica (1975) by Raduan Nassar, Terra sonâmbula (1992), by Mia Couto, and Crónica de una muerte anunciada (1981), by Gabriel García Márquez, aims to establish a dialogue between romance and mythology. From this perspective, the text examines the nature of mythological and historical time interaction and the role of the reinterpretation of myths and its impact on the chosen literary works. To develop such a proposal, the use of basic theoretical guidelines will allow us to define the characterizing elements of the mythological presence in the fictional texts selected for analysis. We will first point out the allusion to a certain recognizable myth; secondly, the presence of ritual elements that establish the connection between the myth and the sacred; and, finally, the role of the word as a fundamental element that renews, preserves and diffuses the memory of the sacred, that is, of the mythological. The chosen novels are true examples of the processes of experimentation developed in each of these fields - myth, ritual, word - in an artistic practice that brings together different ways of seeing the world, as well as creatively reinterpreting it through their own imaginaries. The central objective of this work is, therefore, to show that the presence of mythological elements in the three novels embodies the basic structural component of the three narratives and that this presence manifests itself in a specific way in each of the works under analysis.

Este trabalho explora três possíveis significados para o \"romance histórico\" Amphitryon, de Ignacio Padilla, e, a partir disso, estuda modos de interação entre história e ficção. O primeiro sentido analisa-o como um livro na história, uma obra marcante que se escreveu sob o contexto de um manifesto célebre por tentar reorganizar a tradição literária latinoamericana. O segundo sentido toma-o como um livro de história, um romance que não só se aproxima de um gênero literário afeito aos fatos historiográficos, mas que, sobretudo, articula conteúdos históricos, literários e culturais sob formas narrativas que também derivam do século passado. O terceiro sentido, finalmente, o lê como um livro da história, uma narrativa que, pela disposição de relatos e narradores, simula o próprio mecanismo do fazer histórico. Conduzindo essas argumentações estão os princípios da dialética formaabertura e da interação autor-obra-leitor, derivados de Umberto Eco, a noção de leitura e escritura como forma de conhecer, cara a Jorge Luis Borges, e o paradigma indiciário, de Carlo Ginzburg. A tentativa final é fazer de um exercício de crítica literária uma reflexão sobre a história. Para tanto, insiste-se na analogia entre verificação e interpretação de dados e as mediações livro-leitor-leituras, e adota-se a \"espiral de leituras\" historicizadas como modo operativo que aproxima discursos ficcionais e discursos históricos, esboçando-se, então, paralelos e limites nos percursos da produção historiográfica e da produção ficcional ao longo do século XX. / This work explores three possible meanings for the \"historical novel\" Amphitryon, of Ignacio Padilla, and, from this, it studies ways of interaction between history and fiction. The first meaning analyzes it as a book in history, a remarkable work that was written under the context of a manifest notable for trying to reorganize the Latin American literary tradition. The second meaning takes it as a history book, a novel that not only comes close to the historiographies facts, but, above all, it articulates historical, literary and cultural contents under narrative forms that are also drawn from the last century. The third meaning, finally, reads it as a book of history, a narrative that, for the disposal of stories and narrators, simulates the mechanism of history. As a guide line for these arguments, there are the principles of the dialectic form-opening and the interaction author-work-reader, derived from Umberto Eco, the notion of reading and writing as forms of knowledge, from Jorge Luis Borges, and the evidential paradigm, of Carlo Ginzburg. The final attempt is to make a reflection on history from a literary critical exercise. In such way, one must insist on the analogy between verification and interpretation of data and the relations bookreader- readings, and adopts the historic \"spiral of readings\" as an operative way that approaches fiction and historical speeches, and so, outlining parallels and limits in the course of the historiography and fictional production throughout the 20th century.