Nitsch, Wolfram (2021). A vehicular province: transports and transgressions in the pampas trilogy of Hernan Ronsino. deSignis (34). S. 120 - 127. PARIS: FEDERACION LATINOAMERICANA SEMIOTICA. ISSN 2462-7259
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According to a classification proposed by Jacques Lafitte, means of transport can be considered as universal machines: on the one hand, they function as active machines that transform energy into movement; on the other hand, they are also passive machines that organise space, assigning a particular place to the user with respect to the landscape and other passengers. Thanks to this dual nature, they can cause various secondary effects which add to their primary function of locomotion. A train not only displaces the passenger, but also alters his/her perception of the world, his/her interaction with the social environment and even his/her experience of him/herself. Although such effects of transit generally count for little in administrative, economic or engineering discourses, they play an important role in literary fiction which tends to emphasise both the cultural context of transportation techniques and what Simondon calls the margin of indeterminacy of the technical object. This can be seen particularly clearly in the narrative of the Argentine writer Hernan Ronsino, especially in his novels La descomposicion (2007), Glaxo (2009) and Lumbre (2013). The so-called pampas trilogy presents the provincial town of Chivilcoy as a theatre of permanent, multiform an polyfunctional locomotion. On the one hand, the novels explore with almost ethnographic precision a peripheral vehicular culture, marked by the contemporaneity of the untimely; on the other hand, they dramatically link transport and transgression. In Ronsino's pampas, the train does not replace the horse, but coexists with the blood traction that still persists when the railway has disappeared and is remembered as a vehicle with two faces, as useful for stimulating escape as for murderous aggression; and the bicycle, another successor to the barbaric horse, lends itself not only to a careful exploration of urban space, but also to the total exhaustion of the unbridled cyclist.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-566153 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.35659/designis.i34p121-133 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | deSignis | ||||||||
| Number: | 34 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 120 - 127 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | FEDERACION LATINOAMERICANA SEMIOTICA | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | PARIS | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2462-7259 | ||||||||
| Language: | Spanish | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56615 |
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