Atravessando o peculiar terreno gastronômico da morte: iguarias do sexo na poética agonizante de Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

In the fantastic labyrinths of literature, considering the mellifluous singularities of the erotic-pornographic discourse, the word is dominated by the sign of excess, a pulsating symphony that privileges the auspicious domains of the flesh that allows itself to be affected, inquisitorially, by the idiosyncrasies of subjectivity. Due to this particular texture, articulating the licentious operators of obscene literature with the nebulous algorithms of the fantastic, the work Putas assassinas (2001) stands out, produced by one of the greatest contemporary cuban writers, Roberto Bolaño (2001), an excellent renovator of the unusual fictional. In the short story The Return, initially, we witness the survival of a ghost narrator who, resignedly, accompanies the mismatches of his lost body, towards a necrophilic experience, in which the corpse undergoes a copious ritual of amorous abuse, arched by Villeneuve, a distinguished French stylist who happens to have a keen feeling for lifeless lovers. Thus, in the unraveling of the violator's abusive actions, the alleged encounter between the executioner and the ghost of his desire will take place. This becomes a voice (internal or external?) that follows the criminal, confusing the reader, who, here, submits himself completely to doubt. Furthermore, underlaying the plot, the body is revived by the character's impetuous fetishism, the nucleus that governs the necrophiliac's fantasy, and which, in turn, produces the ambivalence, characteristic of the fantastic discourse, emblem of the uncertainty that ends up closing the narrative in the (non)existence of this supposed ghost. Thus, with the aim of investigating the antinomies that combine the fantastic with the erotic/pornographic imagination, considering both literary theories and psychoanalytic theories, we will look into the Bollanian universe, observing the peculiarities present in the aforementioned short story, which end up for enriching and producing the maledictive effects of the obscene.