En busca del mago posmoderno: El efecto Montoliu o la (de)construcción del yo como obra de arte lineal

Abstract

This paper analyzes some interesant issues connected to posmodernism explained by one of the main characters in Andrés Ibañez's novel La música del mundo o El efecto Monotoliu (1995). Thus, Ibáñez present us the literary criticism professor Agustín Montoliu arguying that the self as a subject is just a historical construction that owns to our cultural world: therefore, this character analyzes the logic implicit in this construction and finally deconstructs it, asking us to exit from that fictional construction which is our life. The way to do that would be to become a posmodern magician. Ibáñez exposes the posmodernism crisis to give a solution through literature and the use of imagination.