Plot devices in Kentukis, by Samanta Schweblin

Abstract

Kentukis thematizes the issues of contemporary science fiction from an intimate enunciation which exhibits the sinister human bonds in a technological key. We propose an allegorical reading of the darkest aspects of the narrated private lives, which encrypt the fragmented and antagonistic nature of the social totality. The plot is the instrument that enables this analysis, since it works as a mediation between the individual text and the collective meaning, from the interpretative dimensions of the materialistic hermeneutics. Thus, the narrated micro-conspiracies say as much about the secret trait of reality as they do about fiction mechanisms.