La fiesta anómala. Una lectura de la sexualidad en El mendigo chupapijas de Pablo Pérez

Abstract

In this work I aim to present a reading regarding sexuality in Pablo Pérez’s novel El mendigo chupapijas (2005). First, I start from the dimensions of love and pornography, both approached by Roland Barthes and in relation to the notion of the imaginary. The love delirium and the image-detail of pornographic rhetoric feature a metonymic y prosthetic body. Also, such figures superimpose to a kitsch imagery and camp rhetoric that eliminates the notion of value. Value and norm’s suspension generate a common horizon of anomy. In that frame we can find the figures that transit the city: a beggar's wandering. My proposal is to read El mendigo chupapijas from that rhetoric of the anomalous that corresponds with a common horizon of present’s fictions.