O próprio e o alheio em el delirio de turing

realismo mágico e ficção cyberpunk no romance de edmundo paz soldán

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the novel El delirio de
Turing (2003), by Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán, mainly in it
relationship with the cyberpunk fiction, subgenre of science fiction appeared
originally in the North American context of 1980's. This relationship appears,
at once, in the epigraphs of the work, where a cyberpunk writer (Neal
Stephenson) is quoted: actually, this writer's two works, Snow Crash (1992)
and Cryptonomicon (1999), appear as intertexts in El delirio de Turing. But
Paz Soldán, as member of McOndo generation – a globalizated parody of
García Márquez's Macondo –, also maintain an intense dialogue with their
Latin-American antecedents, the writers of magic realism. It is in that
collision between the own and the alien (Carvalhal), between Latin and North
American literary references, that we will understand Paz Soldán's work.