DENYING THE SELF TO BE THE SELF: THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN EL ASCO/THE DISGUST. THOMAS BERNHARD IN SAN SALVADOR, BY HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA

Abstract

This article will study how, from a unique and completely critical discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of El Salvador, a modern, colonial and completely extremist discourse is perpetuated. In an apparent construction of a new identity, it will be analyzed how Castellanos Moya creates a modern character inserted in a postmodern world, whose ontological dependence on the culture that he rejects is constituted as a basis, and limitation, for his new identity. To demonstrate this, we will work from the proposals of Zygmunt Bauman (2016), Nicolás Casullo (2004), Byun-Chul Han (2020), Leonor Arfuch (2005), Gilles Deleuze (2002) and Walter Mignolo (2014). Finally, it will analyze how this discursive game goes beyond the limits of fiction to blur the limits with reality.