Reescribir el mito de Asterión desde el horror contemporáneo. Acercamiento a "Sacrificios" de María Fernanda Ampuero
Abstract
En medio de un notable desarrollo y visibilización de la literatura ecuatoriana actual, la propuesta de María Fernanda Ampuero se posiciona como referente de lectura ineludible. Las constantes temáticas que identifican su escritura -condición humana ultrajada, lo monstruoso, lo abyecto de la familia y las prácticas religiosas, entre otras- tienden a resignificar el ámbito de lo cotidiano, aspecto que se reafirma en su antología de cuentos Sacrificios humanos, publicada en 2021. El texto, cuya condición genérica se inscribe en el llamado neogótico latinoamericano, articula, a través de doce relatos, una pluralidad de miradas en torno a la noción de sacrificio, de este modo la dupla violencia- muerte se torna eje que dinamiza cada estructura diegética. Por tanto, este trabajo centra su atención en el noveno cuento titulado "Sacrificios" para el que se propone, en tanto hipótesis, una construcción de sentido determinada por la recuperación del mito de Asterión, a partir del cual se destacan las estructuras laberínticas -espacial y discursiva- como dispositivos de encierro y sacrificio. En esta línea, se establece un funcionamiento de correspondencia entre el espacio que se transita y el discurso de los personajes cuya deriva es el horror.
Amid the remarkable development and visibility of current Ecuatorian literature, María Fernanda Ampuero's proposal is an unavoidable reading reference. The constant themes that identify her writing - outraged human condition, the monstrous, the abjectness of family and religious practices, inter alia - tend to resignify the realm of everyday life, an aspect that is reaffirmed in her anthology of short stories Sacrificios humanos, published in 2021. The text, whose condition is inscribed in the called Latin American Neo-Gothic, articulates, through twelve stories, a plurality of looks around the notion of sacrifice, thus the violence-death duo becomes the axis that revitalizes each diegetic structure. Therefore, this paper centers on the ninth story entitled Sacrificios for which it is proposed, as a hypothesis, a construction of meaning determined by the recovery of the myth of Asterion, from which the labyrinth structures -spatial and discursive - stand out as devices of enclosure and sacrifice. In this line, an established correspondence between the traversed space and the discourse of the characters leads to horror.
Amid the remarkable development and visibility of current Ecuatorian literature, María Fernanda Ampuero's proposal is an unavoidable reading reference. The constant themes that identify her writing - outraged human condition, the monstrous, the abjectness of family and religious practices, inter alia - tend to resignify the realm of everyday life, an aspect that is reaffirmed in her anthology of short stories Sacrificios humanos, published in 2021. The text, whose condition is inscribed in the called Latin American Neo-Gothic, articulates, through twelve stories, a plurality of looks around the notion of sacrifice, thus the violence-death duo becomes the axis that revitalizes each diegetic structure. Therefore, this paper centers on the ninth story entitled Sacrificios for which it is proposed, as a hypothesis, a construction of meaning determined by the recovery of the myth of Asterion, from which the labyrinth structures -spatial and discursive - stand out as devices of enclosure and sacrifice. In this line, an established correspondence between the traversed space and the discourse of the characters leads to horror.
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Vol. 26, No. 49