Conciencia novelesca y liturgia

The word liturgy is etymologically linked to the political and ethical dimension that religious worship possesses. This article aims at its articulations with the poetic scope that the representation of the characters’ consciousness has acquired in both modernist and postmodernist narrative. Key categories of theological thought (fall, redemption, eschatology) are brought into play to explore the meaning built by the linguistic and imaginary inquiry of human beings into their existential reality. Concepts such as chronoclasm and atopy are applied to try to explain the figurative complexity that the perception and celebration of the death and resurrection of the human image acquires. Two recent novels – Septology by Jon Fosse and Laurus by Evgueni Vodolazkin – serve to try to exemplify this return of the liturgical as an expression of a new form of communion in the act of reading.