El narrador testigo en "Less than zero": la nuevas novelas norteamericana de los 80
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Mora González, Lucía
- Autor:
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Mora González, Lucía
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Artykuł z czasopisma
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1988
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Estudios humanísticos. Filología ISSN 0213-1382 Nº 10, 1988, pags. 187-194
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When «Less Than Zero» was first published in 1985, Bret Easton Elli could not imagine that bis novel was going to become a bcst-seller. This novel is set in Los Angeles, it is a powerful portrayal of a generation of young people who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at an carly age. «Less Than Zero» (Elvis Costello's title of a bitter song), narrates the experience of a young student who comes home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation and its narrator, Clay, tells us how his holiday turns into a dizzing spiral of desperation, that takes him through parties, rock clubs, co-kaine nes, neon lights, and the underworld of pornography. His observation of life comes with youth and money. Sometimes, the evidence narrator keeps away from his youthful American alienation; others he shares its experiences through a direct, constant, and dry style. In general, we can point out that the protagonist narrator of «Less Than Zero» observes what's happcning around him without taking any determing part. In relation to this new trend of the American narrative of the 1980s, there is the so called «Dirty Realism». The characters who inhabit this low-life ambience are everyday guys who may be a bit down on their luck. But in general the stories are full of men and women whose lives are troubled or just plain empty being difficult for them to communicate themselves with society. Things never turra out well... at best, not badly. However, theirs is not to re-bel or explode, the overwhelming sensation is one of resignation, they are people who ask very little out of life.
