La conexión realista entre la narrativa de Houellebecq y la filosofía de Ferraris

The aim of this paper is to show the theoretical connection between the thought of Maurizio Ferraris and the narrative works of Michel Houellebecq on the question of realism. Ferraris argues that one of our biggest problems today is our inability to establish a clear and stable notion of "reali...

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Published in:Anales de filología francesa 2017-01, Vol.25, p.229-248
Main Author: Fúster, Miguel Amores
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Ferraris, Maurizio
French literature
Houellebecq, Michel (1956- )
Narratives
Novels
Postmodernism
Realism
Writers
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to show the theoretical connection between the thought of Maurizio Ferraris and the narrative works of Michel Houellebecq on the question of realism. Ferraris argues that one of our biggest problems today is our inability to establish a clear and stable notion of "reality". Postmodernism would have taken to the extreme Nietzsche's sentence: "There are no facts, only interpretations". And this would have generated a structural uncertainty with respect to the reality that Ferraris calls "realitysm" and whose main processes are "ironization", "desublimation" and "disobjectivization" of world contents. Here it will be argued that the verism of Houellebecq's novels can be coded as a realistic fictional decantation of this structural inability to understand reality.
ISSN:0213-2958
1989-4678