“Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011), El peso del corazón (2015) y Los tiempos del odio (2018) de Rosa Montero: las novelas góticas posmodernas de la detective Bruna Husky”
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Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011), El peso del corazón (2015) y Los tiempos del odio
(2018) de Rosa Montero están ambientadas en el Madrid del siglo XXI, una gran
ciudad en un mundo altamente contaminado que bebe del mundo ficcional de
¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? de Philip K. Dick y de su adaptación
cinematográfica, Blade Runner, de Ridley Scott. Su protagonista, la detective replicante Bruna Husky se enfrenta a una serie de conspiraciones auspiciadas por
diversos grupos de fanáticos totalitaristas en un escenario que juega con todas las
características comunes del género gótico (Ganz, 2013, p. 87-8). Un mundo en
el que tanto los humanos menos privilegiados como los replicantes y los extraterrestres son seres marginados lo cual sirve no sólo para renegociar la identidad
humana, sino también para encender fundamentalismos fanáticos que definen su
identidad en oposición agresiva al otro (Plumwood, 2002, p. 228). El objetivo
del presente trabajo es analizar diversos marcadores del gótico postmoderno en
estas obras como la disolución del yo, uno de los rasgos distintivos del gótico posmoderno (Botting, 2005, p. 109), el miedo a los cuerpos modificados, el papel de
la ciencia, los doppelgängers, la cuestión de quién puede considerarse monstruoso
y la incertidumbre acerca de qué quedará después de los irremisibles cambios, lo
cual supone la mayor fuente de pavor en el gótico posthumano (Bolton, 2014,
p. 3), en unas novelas que retratan la desintegración no sólo de un individuo
específico o de un lugar específico, sino de la vida misma (Ganz, 2013, p. 154).
Tears in Rain (translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites 2012), Weight of the Heart (translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites 2016) and Times of Hate (2018, not translated) by Rosa Montero are set in 21st century Madrid, a big city in a highly polluted world that draws from the fictional world of Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick and its film adaptation, Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott. Their protagonist, the replicant detective Bruna Husky, faces a series of conspiracies sponsored by various groups of totalitarian fanatics in a scenario that plays with all the common characteristics of the Gothic genre (Ganz, 2013, p. 87-8). A world in which less privileged humans, replicants, and aliens are marginalized beings, which serves not only to renegotiate human identity, but also to ignite fanatical fundamentalisms that define their identity in aggressive opposition to the other (Plumwood, 2002, p. 228). The goal of this work is to analyze various markers of postmodern Gothic in these works such as the dissolution of the self, one of the distinctive features of postmodern Gothic (Botting, 2005, p. 109), the fear of modified bodies, the role of science, doppelgängers, the question of who can be considered monstrous and the uncertainty about what will remain after the inevitable changes, which is the greatest source of fear in the posthuman Gothic (Bolton, 2014, p. 3), in three novels that portray the disintegration not only of a specific individual or a specific place, but of life itself (Ganz, 2013, p. 154).
Tears in Rain (translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites 2012), Weight of the Heart (translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites 2016) and Times of Hate (2018, not translated) by Rosa Montero are set in 21st century Madrid, a big city in a highly polluted world that draws from the fictional world of Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick and its film adaptation, Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott. Their protagonist, the replicant detective Bruna Husky, faces a series of conspiracies sponsored by various groups of totalitarian fanatics in a scenario that plays with all the common characteristics of the Gothic genre (Ganz, 2013, p. 87-8). A world in which less privileged humans, replicants, and aliens are marginalized beings, which serves not only to renegotiate human identity, but also to ignite fanatical fundamentalisms that define their identity in aggressive opposition to the other (Plumwood, 2002, p. 228). The goal of this work is to analyze various markers of postmodern Gothic in these works such as the dissolution of the self, one of the distinctive features of postmodern Gothic (Botting, 2005, p. 109), the fear of modified bodies, the role of science, doppelgängers, the question of who can be considered monstrous and the uncertainty about what will remain after the inevitable changes, which is the greatest source of fear in the posthuman Gothic (Bolton, 2014, p. 3), in three novels that portray the disintegration not only of a specific individual or a specific place, but of life itself (Ganz, 2013, p. 154).

