RUINA HUMANA Y VIOLENCIA EN EL RELATO AUTOFICTICIO ESCOMBROS DE FERNANDO VALLEJO

Abstract

This article analyzes Fernando Vallejo’s novel Escombros (2021) in light of some theories related to ruins, the body and violence with the aim of showing that in Vallejo’s novel the protagonist becomes a human ruin as a result of tragic events (Zambrano, 2012) and of a ruination process of the body considered connatural to the human being (Nancy, 2000; Sofsky, 2006; Maurette, 2018). This character coexists tensely and violently with the rest of the characters, especially with the “disposable” beings, poor bodies subjected to symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 1995, 1997; Han, 2019) who are configured as human ruins in consequence of the capitalist economic progress (Zulaika, 2006; Benjamin, 2010) in a degrading world (Nancy, 2002).