Transmission, filiation and style in writing. The narrative of rosarino Marcelo Scalona

Abstract

The article is the product of a broader investigation into generational transmission in some authors of Rosario literature in recent years. As an introduction we develop: What is style? How is it transmitted? Is there a style in the transmission? Later, the article recovers what was worked on in previous writings, making a conclusive synthesis regarding the narrative of the writer Marcelo Scalona. Firstly, it makes a global reading of general aspects of the work, focusing on the question: What does the style convey in this trilogy? The author's three novels can be read as a trilogy, by plot, theme and characters. The Bearer (2010), The Hotel Where Perón Dreamed (2017) and El Chino de Tablada (2023) Secondly, its characters are voices that provide variants on the relationship between filiatory transmission and time. Therefore, we focus on following the father's footprints, the filiatory bond and the transmission in each of them. In the novels, with a highly realistic content, a sordid, cruel social context is described, where politics is part of the current social degradation, and the nature of the family and social bond receives its effects.