Figures of the body and biotechnology in two avant garde short stories by Pablo Palacio and Alberto Hidalgo

Abstract

This article explores the construction of the body in vanguard stories in two Andean writers: the Ecuadorian Pablo Palacio and the Peruvian Alberto Hidalgo. Through images of fragmented bodies or double bodies, roads crisscrossing offer of subjectivism and depersonalization. Furthermore, both represent from the figure of the monstrous body resistance to modern biotechnology.