La ficción en la era de fotografía digital: cuerpos fragmentados, distorsión temporal y descontrol en la ficción irlandesa reciente de autoría femenina
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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2025-13220Palabras clave:
digital, Louise O’Neill, online, Sally Rooney, generación milénica, fotografíaResumen
Casi un siglo y medio después de que François Arago presentara el invento de Daguerre en la Académie des Sciences, Nancy Armstrong dedicó su libro Fiction in the Age of Photography al impacto que este invento tuvo en el realismo literario del siglo XIX. Poco más de medio siglo después de la primera fotografía digital, en su obra Analog Fictions for the Digital Age: Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000, Julia Breitbach cuestionaba si la literatura escrita en la era digital había llegado realmente a un acuerdo con la revolución que las tecnologías digitales han forjado en el medio de la fotografía. Este artículo reflexiona sobre dos novelas recientes escritas por autoras irlandesas de la generación del milenio para dilucidar si este hallazgo continúa siendo válido. Haciendo referencia a algunas de las diferencias fundamentales entre la fotografía analógica y la digital – fragmentación, temporalidad y autoridad – este artículo sugiere que en Asking for It (2015) de Louise O’Neill y Normal People (2018) de Sally Rooney, la fotografía digital no solo ocupa un primer plano temático, sino que también tiene un impacto en la propia escritura.
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