Translating North-American Narrative: the Return to (others) Home

Abstract

In the late nineties and the early years of 21st Century, one of the most influential literatures has been the North-American Narrative, from dirty realism to the powerful postmodern writers, like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace, among others. In this article we’ll try to explain how the different translations to Spanish of their books has contributed to open new thresholds for Spanish late narrative, and how these aesthetic worldview provided to Spanish authors new themes, narrative techniques, structures and plot designsIn the late nineties and the early years of 21st Century, one of the most influential literatures has been the North-American Narrative, from dirty realism to the powerful postmodern writers, like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace, among others. In this article we’ll try to explain how the different translations to Spanish of their books has contributed to open new thresholds for Spanish late narrative, and how these aesthetic worldview provided to Spanish authors new themes, narrative techniques, structures and plot designs