Las perplejidades de la posmodernidad en el pensamiento de José Jiménez Lozano

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Based on the analysis of scattered ideas in notebooks and reflected in his books of short stories, we have approached the study of the notions that govern the design of the craft of writing of Jose Jiménez Lozano, in which lies the ethical and aesthetic response of the writer to the questions of the postmodernity: the primacy of the memory as a source of knowledge, the confidence in the word to speak about the essentially human and, therefore, the protagonism of telling little stories memorable. We find not only Walter Benjamin’s delegitimization of the Grand Narrative of Western modernity, but his claim of the memory and the role of the defeated to achieve a true representation of the past. 

Keywords

José Jiménez Lozano, Posmodernity, Short story, Notebooks, Walter Benjamin