Crisis, Guerra e identidad. Modelos de representación en disputa en La 31 (Una novela precaria) de Ariel Magnus

Abstract

Fictions about la villa are constituted in Argentina as an exceptionally functional symbolic locus to address the deep cultural changes that follow the crisis of 2001. This work analyzes the novel of Ariel Magnus from the cultural paradigm of the war in its Deleuzian sense. The novel articulates the struggle between two modes of representation of the subject. Magnus evidences the breakdown of the modern rationalist paradigm raised in the city and the bourgeois subject, directly linked to the State in its ideal form, by the overflow of the villa space and the villero subject. This discourse aligns with Luis Pardo’s thesis about residual overproduction and its «garbage places» that flood us in the over-modernity. In the novel, la villa absorbs the faculty representing the identity of the social subject, constituting itself as a force external to the State that disputes its authorizing agency.