Clues to narrating the weired in the short stories of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

In this papper, clues to narrating the wired in "El otro laberinto", and "El perjurio de la nieve" by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and "William Burns" and "El policia de las ratas" by Roberto Bolaño were investigated.

The dective approach, the hybridity and fusion of genres, the polyphony of voices, intertextuality are tools that the elected writers use to face the fears of human beings, and to highlight the world of uncertainty, or, externalize the anguish before the political and social environment. On the other hand, the stories chosen for this study invite us to reflect on the text-reader relationship through presenting unusual facts. The author rely on the range of articles focused on the literature of  fantsy and that of the weired in order to pose the hypothesis about the possibility of considering the results that the research reaches as keys that serve to narrate the unusual in the stories studied.