EN CAMINO, EXPLORANDO FORMAS DE SUPERVIVENCIA. TRAYECTOS DE SALVACIÓN O ANIQUILAMIENTOS EN LA NARRATIVA DE IVÁN REPILA Y RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓN
ON THE WAY, EXPLORING FORMS OF SURVIVAL. PATHS OF SALVATION OR ANNIHILATION IN THE NARRATIVE OF IVAN REPILA AND RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓN

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of our analysis is based on two aspects that formally and thematically mark current literature written in Spanish: a) the presence of travel, not only as a textual argument, but also as part of the creative process; b) the affirmation of a type of literature whose form is molded at the moment in which the voice (or voices) in charge of the story faces the psychic challenge of representing situations of radical, inexpressible violence. As a consequence of that, it is necessary to reflect on what exhibition strategies the artist (in this case, the writer) can adopt to convey the inexpressible and what kind of journey through horror his characters must undertake in the fictional plane in order to that the unspeakable can be said. Our reading of two Spanish novels published in the second decade of the 21st century (El niño que robó el caballo de Atila, 2017, by Iván Repila, and Medusa, 2012, by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón) aims to understand what happens when: a) literary proposals on extreme manifestations of violence choose to follow metaphorical paths and/or b) literary proposals try to represent the existence of the fictional character as an experience of “transit” through the violence of history, also thinking about the forms adopted by the discourses responsible for the representation of Evil.

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