O próprio e o alheio em el delirio de turing

Abstract

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