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A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and tubes, a cyborg of fragile artificial life. In the garden of a Central American dictator's mansion, a prisoner is locked in a cage next to a lion's. Nature and animal instinct will take their course. In post-Sandinista Nicaragua, an amputee policeman must face-alone and wounded-a drug gang commanded by his former guerrilla leader. Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado's short stories and novels, his writing is governed by irony and parody. Fabula del Poder proposes a novel critical assessment of the narrative work of Ramirez, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2017, emphasizing the mechanisms of representation and criticism of power in contemporary Latin American literature. In an entertaining and dynamic way, the book applies an interdisciplinary, theoretical approach, borrowing concepts from political theory, literary criticism, video games, visual culture, and sports, and reviews the contemporary historiography of Nicaragua and Latin America.
Un suboficial de la Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua viaja a Nueva York para conocer al celebre fisicoculturista Charles Atlas. Cuando logra acercarse al heroe, encuentra un cuerpo traspasado de jeringas y mangueras, un ciborg de fragil vida artificial. En el jardin de la mansion de un dictador centroamericano, un prisionero es encerrado en la jaula contigua a la de un leon. La naturaleza y el instinto animal seguiran su curso. En la Nicaragua post-sandinista, un policia amputado de una pierna debe enfrentar-solo y herido-a una banda de narcotraficantes comandada por su antiguo jefe guerrillero. A pesar de la gravedad y violencia de las historias contadas en muchos de los cuentos y las novelas de Sergio Ramirez Mercado, su obra esta regida por la ironia y la parodia. Fabula del Poder propone una novedosa valoracion critica de la obra narrativa de Ramirez, quien recibio el Premio Cervantes en 2017, haciendo enfasis en los mecanismos de representacion y critica del poder en la literatura contemporanea de America Latina. De manera amena y dinamica el libro utiliza un marco teorico interdisciplinario y aplica conceptos de teoria politica, critica literaria, videojuegos, cultura visual y deportiva, y repasa la historiografia contemporanea de Nicaragua y America Latina.
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A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and tubes, a cyborg of fragile artificial life. In the garden of a Central American dictator's mansion, a prisoner is locked in a cage next to a lion's. Nature and animal instinct will take their course. In post-Sandinista Nicaragua, an amputee policeman must face-alone and wounded-a drug gang commanded by his former guerrilla leader. Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado's short stories and novels, his writing is governed by irony and parody. Fabula del Poder proposes a novel critical assessment of the narrative work of Ramirez, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2017, emphasizing the mechanisms of representation and criticism of power in contemporary Latin American literature. In an entertaining and dynamic way, the book applies an interdisciplinary, theoretical approach, borrowing concepts from political theory, literary criticism, video games, visual culture, and sports, and reviews the contemporary historiography of Nicaragua and Latin America.
Un suboficial de la Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua viaja a Nueva York para conocer al celebre fisicoculturista Charles Atlas. Cuando logra acercarse al heroe, encuentra un cuerpo traspasado de jeringas y mangueras, un ciborg de fragil vida artificial. En el jardin de la mansion de un dictador centroamericano, un prisionero es encerrado en la jaula contigua a la de un leon. La naturaleza y el instinto animal seguiran su curso. En la Nicaragua post-sandinista, un policia amputado de una pierna debe enfrentar-solo y herido-a una banda de narcotraficantes comandada por su antiguo jefe guerrillero. A pesar de la gravedad y violencia de las historias contadas en muchos de los cuentos y las novelas de Sergio Ramirez Mercado, su obra esta regida por la ironia y la parodia. Fabula del Poder propone una novedosa valoracion critica de la obra narrativa de Ramirez, quien recibio el Premio Cervantes en 2017, haciendo enfasis en los mecanismos de representacion y critica del poder en la literatura contemporanea de America Latina. De manera amena y dinamica el libro utiliza un marco teorico interdisciplinario y aplica conceptos de teoria politica, critica literaria, videojuegos, cultura visual y deportiva, y repasa la historiografia contemporanea de Nicaragua y America Latina.