fragmentariedad

Resumen: A partir del libro Y por mirarlo todo, nada veía (2018) de Margo Glantz (Ciudad de México, 1930) analizamos la relación que tiene la novela con la escritura en Twitter. Esta obra que hibrida con el ensayo por la superposición caótica de fragmentos sobre la realidad parte de mensajes breves, alertas y banalidades que se comparten en las redes sociales. Por tanto, la escritora mexicana, como ya adelantó en Yo también me acuerdo (2014), augura un nuevo género para la literatura: la escritura digital diaria de remembranzas que también en papel permite entender los actuales modos de lectura, patentes en su actividad tuitera con el perfil @Margo_Glantz.

This essay addresses the concept of “modern city” that can be deduced by reading a series of texts by German philosopher Walter Benjamin. In these texts, the author does not attempt a definition of the concept of city, nor concerns himself with an urbanistic discussion. However, it is possible to observe a certain perspective, a benajminean way to face the topic of the city, that is also related to the actions of remembering and writing. That is, the method that Benjamin uses to approach the
modern urban phenomena is completely mediated by subjectivity and the written language. In that way, his evocation of the cities of Berlin and Paris comes to be paradigmatic and allows us to deduce the notion of modern city upon which Benjamin articulates the texts analyzed in this research. Finally, this essay proposes that the benjaminean method, as well as his conception of the modern city, is related to the urban fragmentary nature that is the product of industrial capitalism, which could influence his perception of the modern city as a place of disintegration of sense.