El lector al otro lado del espejo. Reflexiones a propósito de Horrores cotidianos de David Roas y La red ciega de Carlos M. Gutiérrez

Abstract

The article examines two recent collections of stories, written both for two teachers of literature. After indicating the suitable thing that turns out to be the story for the literary experimentation in the current moment, itdescribes both books and examines his fundamental, common characteristic to the two: to overcome the freedom of own interpretation of the recipient, by means of a deliberate technology of to select the ideal reader who will be that one that can uncover successfully the multiple references that in the stories exist. For this selection one possesses two basic instruments: the readings of the authors, his reading biography, which the recipient must share (though it is not indicated) to understandin its entirety the texts, and the humor, a humor that selects those that there has the same ironic, critical vision, of the own literature and of the life, which the author demonstrates. Ultimately, the author looks for a reader as him, is looked to yes same.