La subversión del relato en La muerte de un hombrecito

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the novel La muerte de un hombrecito, written by Juan Carlos Martelli, from the point of view of literary technique from the construction of the narrative voice. The text in question is structured on the basis of reflection on the working tool of the writer, language as means of literary production. The inability to build a monadic true, the unveiling of the fictional character of every story, the strategies underlying the literary hoax, are some of the writing problems that develops a narrator's as bourgeois as criminal. The chairman of a winery attracted to the underworld of crime will be the voice that structures the fiction upon ambiguity, putting at risk the reader's confidence in the omnipotence of narrative figure. This analysis that tries to think of literature as production or practice is linked to a reading of the detective genre from the concept of crime as social production branch, to deploy the meanings of literary works in terms of their "living social connections" (Benjamin, 2012) . Thus, the organizations that support the national legal and illegal businesses in the moment the dictatorship ends set the coordinates of a crime narration crossed by betrayal at both the history and construction of discourse.