Lo fantástico de percepción, lo fantástico de lenguaje y su efecto subversivo en Control Terrestre de José Güich Rodríguez

In contemporary Latin-American literature, techno-scientific objects and other thematic elements whose presence is typical of the fantastic genre are increasingly linked to experiments with narrative enunciation. This way, a coexistence is being installed between a "fantastic of perception" and a "fantastic of language", two modalities which are elaborated in the short stories included in Control Terrestre (2013), written by the Peruvian author José Güich Rodríguez. More specifically, some of these short stories set in motion the process of vacillation through the presence of futuristic machines, while others focus more on the material aspect of the text, alternating or connecting the abovementioned issue to properly structural artifices such as playing with narrative time, metafiction and various intertextual references. Finally, both strategies give birth to a discourse that questions Latin-American socio-economic reality by denouncing an dehumanizing world and suggesting the existence of parallel universes.