Del LaZarillo al Occupy zombi: zombificaciones literarias y sociales para un nuevo siglo
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Llosa Sanz, Álvaro
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2017
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Impossibilia ISSN 2174-2464 Nº. 14, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La autoficción en las artes y la literatura II), pags. 187-212
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Abstract: In recent years several publishing companies have promoted zombified versions of classic fiction in a mass consumption period of zombie productions in films, TV, and graphic novels. Following this popular trending in Western societies, Spanish literature has already produced some titles. Furthermore, stories involving zombies are considered to become indicators of social concerns. Accordingly to this, the present paper focuses on how a classic picaresque novel -La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (1554)- has been transformed into a zombified story -LaZarillo: matar zombis nunca fue pan comido (2010)-, and how this literary transformation implies a critical rewriting of a canonical text in order to be able to link their historical concerns to a contemporary world devastated by a social breakdown mainly derived from the 2008 global financial crisis.Keywords: Lazarillo de Tormes, zombi fiction, rewriting, hybrid literature, canon