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espanolEdmundo Paz Soldan es uno de los narradores latinoamericanos que de manera mas audaz ha visitado el topico del devenir simulacro de lo real y la transformacion que la proliferacion tecnologica de nuestro siglo provoca en la psique humana. En sus obras podemos leer una dominante arqueologica, frecuente en el genero distopico, mas alla de que sus ficciones, tal vez a excepcion de Iris y Las visiones, no puedan etiquetarse de ciencia ficcion. Me centro en este articulo en su ultima novela publicada. Los dias de la peste puede, en principio, leerse como una vuelta al realismo tras un ciclo narrativo que visita la ciencia ficcion; no obstante, en ella, la presencia material de los cuerpos, la reflexion sobre su condicion de objeto problematico, como ocurria en Iris o en Las visiones, resulta obsesiva y central. La novela parece abordar la pregunta que, entre otros, se hacia Santiago Alba Rico en su ensayo Ser o no ser (un cuerpo) (2017): ?cual es la velocidad de los cuerpos hoy? ?Cual es su estatuto bajo el capitalismo contemporaneo? ?Que tienen que decir o reclamarnos? Paz Soldan, asi, ofrece en la novela el colofon a una reflexion sobre la condicion del cuerpo y la subjetividad en nuestro tiempo, articulado desde la ciencia ficcion, y un realismo contemporaneo prenado de sus topicos. EnglishEdmundo Paz Soldan is one of the Latin American narrators who has most daringly explored the topic of the transformation of the real into simulacrum as well as the change that technological proliferation that the current century brings about in human psyche. In his works an archaeological predominant element can be read, which is frequent in the dystopian genre, irrespective of whether his fictions, perhaps except for Iris and Las visiones, cannot be labeled as science fiction. In this paper I focus on his last published novel. Los dias de la peste can, in principle, be construed as a return to realism after a narrative cycle exploring science fiction. Nevertheless, in this novel, the material presence of bodies, the reflection on their condition as problematic objects, as it was the case in Iris or in Las visiones, is obsessive and central. The novel seems to address the question that was raised by Santiago Alba Rico, among others, in his essay Ser o no ser (un cuerpo) (2017): What is the speed of bodies today? What is their status under contemporary capitalism? What do they have to say or claim? Paz Soldan thus offers in the novel the colophon to a reflection on the condition of the body and subjectivity in our time, articulated from science fiction, and a contemporary realism fraught with his topics.

La velocidad de los cuerpos: mercado, distopía y desecho en Los días de la peste, de Edmundo Paz Soldán