Media textuality and augmented reality in Los muertos of Jorge Carrión

Abstract

The incorporation of novel forms of new technologies into literary practice produces new types of texts and new ways of approaching reading. Thus, literature is understood as something more than pure language in its approach to the world of mass media. In the novel Los muertos by Jorge Carrión, various elements that reflect the structural models and modes of representation of the mass media as a constituent part of the text are incorporated. However, the text does not stop at the mere incorporation of technological means into the literary framework, in an attempt to generate a contemporaneous effect. We propose to analyze the way in which this work with the media textuality turns out to be a strategy to reflect on the link that is established between fiction and reality. This fact gives rise to the approach of a proposal on the place that literature could occupy in the current technological landscape.