Drama del reconocimiento, vidas precarias y filiaciones en 2666, de Roberto Bolaño. Otra vuelta de tuerca del imaginario melodramático latinoamericano.2° parte

The paper proposes to analyze the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño from the notion of recognition, reinterpreted by Jesús Martín Barbero and Hermann Herlinghaus in the framework of their work on melodramatic imagination. An essential component of the melodramatic dramaturgy, the recognition acquires here a much broader significance, be it used in a literal sense or in the metaphorical sense of the term, allowing thus to tackle the issue of the social constructions of subjectivity. Besides we establish the link between this search of recognition, which reiterates itself on multiple discursive levels and registers, and the concept of precarious life developed, among others, by Judith Butler. We analyze the final three books of 2666, to show how as the chaos is introduced, the melodramatic figures are increasingly visible and canonical, and how the presence of evil saturates the realm he portrays. The tension between knowledge and re-knowledge is constant and open to subjective interpretations; the invisible and those denied visibility are becoming a place in writing, be it metaphorical, fictitious, or real. Encounters multiply and their point is to oblige them to face to their problematic existence and their denied memories.