Narratology in the hybrid novel No será la Tierra by Jorge Volpi

Abstract

This text makes a narrative study of the novel by Jorge Volpi No será la Tierra. We analyze the contradictory structure of the book, the multiple frames, the polyphonic narrator, the post-apocalyptic time, the antiutopic and disenchanted space, and the characters, co-protagonists of the twentieth century. All these features contribute, in the field of deterritorialization, to vacate positions that tend to stiffen in fixed and motionless concepts, so that different narratologic features in hybrid novels ––those that consist of a juxtaposition of subgenera–– always be related to the notions of heterogeneity, diversity and plurality, as part of the fall of the great stories of the twentieth century.