Aesthetic Expression of Resentment in Recent Colombian Narratives

Abstract

In a set of Colombian novels recently published explores the emotional expression of the characters before the social and political reality that fictions form. Resentment arises in this framework as an intimate language that unites heroes and epistemic space to investigate the affective facet of a society subject to a state of social precariousness and emptiness of future. The complaint of the resentful character is equated with a kind of existential politics, an individual expressive power that reveals the breakdowns of the social order and gives moral reality to the complex situations that destroy the aspirations of justice and equality. The novels studied are conceived in this way as aesthetics of resentment, scriptures that go to the place of the intimate injured and then return and tell what is in it. Narrating the reality of a country, of a generation, from a resentful sensibility constitutes a renewed language that articulates and gives representation to the not always perceptible realities of social life.