By Miguel de Loyola
An overview of the Chilean narrative of the last thirty years, necessarily leads to channel it into two areas distant from each other. One officer, with the sponsorship of the big publishers, and, therefore, with press coverage in the press and the ubiquitous advertising that implies. The other, which has not been published by publishers, corporations, or whether want in the national of some importance in the environment, without the necessary press coverage, and critical comments, develops outside the margins of the establishment, with little or no impact on the reading public.
not know without doubt which of these two survive over time. For now, suffice it to say here is discrimination today in the world in art, as a matter primarily of commercial interest. No one invests in literature, nor in any field related to art, but is sure to recover the investment and make delicious dividends. This empowerment of the field operator by the company Private main objective, we know, in the making, is an impediment to talking about literary canon as it used to speak in the past. Today, literature is being sold is what makes the trend, winning over any other.
The phenomenon, of course, affects not only the Chilean literature, but which is written around the world. Therefore, it is anticipated that the burgeoning literature on Chile in the last thirty years, is one that is closer to the style imposed by the industry, and sold in the market as consumer product, be it good or bad literature. Matter on which there is no rule, when there is no aesthetic distance to do it.
What it should be noted, is a clear trend toward thrillers, detective novels over the narrative of a social, philosophical or metaphysical. This trend has prevailed in Chile well above the novel of exile, for example, and post-dictatorship works that continue to denounce abuses committed during that time, etc.
Contrary to what happened thirty years ago in Chile, which imposed the novel committed to the social turmoil of the time, today it is difficult for anyone to notice that the interest of the duality of writer-reader moves into the plane of fun , entertainment, uncompromising of any kind with the social thing. In both the novel that seeks to question, complain, claiming the man and his circumstances, yet peude penetrate the "intellectual field" and is silent, marginalized from the media and their potential readers.
literary criticism, yesterday an important agent for the development and health of the narrative, there is now greater weight than that provided by the market. In the absence of pluralistic and independent forums for the development and dissemination of literary criticism, the few existing in the daily mass are also subject to the interests of the publishing industry. Nor is it appropriate to speak of academic criticism, for while not out of the classroom, its influence on the canon is absolutely null.
Thus, in our current Chile writers who dazzle with entertainment this literature have also managed to insert in the concert of world literature, confirming or acceding to the new fees imposed by the industry.
However, we must recognize that this beachhead opened by the national writers abroad, contributes to the dissemination and expansion of the Chilean narrative to developed countries, as in the time of the boom. With the difference that today, ideas are not exported as yesterday, but fun.
Miguel de Loyola was born in Chile. She studied at the Universidad Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Chile. Between 1984 and 1986 as part of the workshop of the National Prize for Literature José Donoso. Public storybook "Welcome be the day" (1997), novels "stag" (1999) and "The unwinding" . Now part of the Circle of Art Critics in Chile, and is Director of the Corporación Cultural Chile Free, publisher of critical and Letrasdechile.cl test site, and deputy editor of the magazine Proa .
An overview of the Chilean narrative of the last thirty years, necessarily leads to channel it into two areas distant from each other. One officer, with the sponsorship of the big publishers, and, therefore, with press coverage in the press and the ubiquitous advertising that implies. The other, which has not been published by publishers, corporations, or whether want in the national of some importance in the environment, without the necessary press coverage, and critical comments, develops outside the margins of the establishment, with little or no impact on the reading public.
not know without doubt which of these two survive over time. For now, suffice it to say here is discrimination today in the world in art, as a matter primarily of commercial interest. No one invests in literature, nor in any field related to art, but is sure to recover the investment and make delicious dividends. This empowerment of the field operator by the company Private main objective, we know, in the making, is an impediment to talking about literary canon as it used to speak in the past. Today, literature is being sold is what makes the trend, winning over any other.
The phenomenon, of course, affects not only the Chilean literature, but which is written around the world. Therefore, it is anticipated that the burgeoning literature on Chile in the last thirty years, is one that is closer to the style imposed by the industry, and sold in the market as consumer product, be it good or bad literature. Matter on which there is no rule, when there is no aesthetic distance to do it.
What it should be noted, is a clear trend toward thrillers, detective novels over the narrative of a social, philosophical or metaphysical. This trend has prevailed in Chile well above the novel of exile, for example, and post-dictatorship works that continue to denounce abuses committed during that time, etc.
Contrary to what happened thirty years ago in Chile, which imposed the novel committed to the social turmoil of the time, today it is difficult for anyone to notice that the interest of the duality of writer-reader moves into the plane of fun , entertainment, uncompromising of any kind with the social thing. In both the novel that seeks to question, complain, claiming the man and his circumstances, yet peude penetrate the "intellectual field" and is silent, marginalized from the media and their potential readers.
literary criticism, yesterday an important agent for the development and health of the narrative, there is now greater weight than that provided by the market. In the absence of pluralistic and independent forums for the development and dissemination of literary criticism, the few existing in the daily mass are also subject to the interests of the publishing industry. Nor is it appropriate to speak of academic criticism, for while not out of the classroom, its influence on the canon is absolutely null.
Thus, in our current Chile writers who dazzle with entertainment this literature have also managed to insert in the concert of world literature, confirming or acceding to the new fees imposed by the industry.
However, we must recognize that this beachhead opened by the national writers abroad, contributes to the dissemination and expansion of the Chilean narrative to developed countries, as in the time of the boom. With the difference that today, ideas are not exported as yesterday, but fun.
Miguel de Loyola was born in Chile. She studied at the Universidad Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Chile. Between 1984 and 1986 as part of the workshop of the National Prize for Literature José Donoso. Public storybook "Welcome be the day" (1997), novels "stag" (1999) and "The unwinding" . Now part of the Circle of Art Critics in Chile, and is Director of the Corporación Cultural Chile Free, publisher of critical and Letrasdechile.cl test site, and deputy editor of the magazine Proa .
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