La estética del fragmento en la prosa modernista y su transformación contemporánea

This essay aims to establish a comparison between the modernist and contemporary temporalities and then distinguish two distinct aesthetic of the fragment in literary prose. The argument goes through a contrast of the term simultaneity and the discussion of the idea of writing “cinematographic” in the perspective of time and space. Thus, from the analysis of the fragment in each case, you can understand the characteristics of prose in every age, corresponding to aesthetics with different approaches and objectives, although not unrelated.