Representación de la juventud en la novela opio en las nubes de Rafael Chaparro Madiedo

Abstract

Literature must be understood and studied as a form of representation of reality, insofar as it allows the interpretation and construction of meaning, since it relates signs, concepts and codes to express and exemplify reality. It should be noted that literature, according to Bakhtín (2005), presents two types of discursive genres: the first simple consisting of immediate communication statements, the second complex productions of cultural communicative conditions. It should be noted that within complex discursive genres, dramas, scientific investigations and novels, among others, are identified. The novel as a complex discursive genre allows us to reflect reality, due to its depth, sensitivity and critical character. Likewise, the novel includes or excludes elements of everyday life, interpreting and resettling them. An example of this is the novel Opio en las Nubes, which through its eighteen chapters, illustrates a society that is in chaos, where consumption prevails, more than personal relationships, where there is no awareness of the past and much less of a future.