El sentimentalismo bryceano: poética de la imposibilidad y el fracaso en Tantas veces Pedro de Alfredo Bryce Echenique.

Abstract

In order to approach the sensibility found in literary postmodernism it is necessary to accept as a working hypothesis that postmodern texts use certain recurrent structural and stylistic conventions and techniques. Bryce, like Nabokov and Borges before him, problematizes representation as such. This essay shows that in Tantas veces Pedro Bryce builds a poetics of impossibility, a poetics that works with the impotence of the word and with failure. Thus Bryce manages to widen, in an inclusive fashion, the postmodern hypothesis showing that its characteristic "possibilism" implies also the negation of any possibility.