Fragmentos, fractales y fronteras: Género y lectura en las series de narrativa breve

Abstract

In this paper I study some strategies for reading narrative series that enable the reader to play with the conventional boundaries between textual unity (in particular, that of the novel) and generic diversity (in particular, that of the short and the short-short story). These strategies enable the reader to distinguish between short story cycles, short-short story cycles, fragmentary novel, and dispersed stories. What is at stake is a new aesthetics of reading which produces a re-statement of the very boundaries between the whole and its parts.