La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.: The postmodern condition and the absurd in the contemporary Latin American short story.

This thesis analyzes the intersection of the postmodern condition and the absurd in the short stories Chac Mool (1954) by the Mexican Carlos Fuentes (1928), Un senor muy viejo con unas alas enormes (1972) by the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928) and El angel caido (1986) by the Uruguayan Cristina Peri Rossi (1941). It is suggested that these representative selections of the mid to late 20th century Latin American narrative incorporate postmodern elements, as devised by Jean-Francois Lyotard y Gilles Lipovetsky, that form the reflection of an absurd world. In accordance with Albert Camus, the absurd emerges from a schism between the human being's desire to assign order and meaning to existence and the continual indifference of the universe. In this sense, the reflection of the absurd includes ideological and cultural components like the irrational, perplexity and estrangement; all of which characterize a significant part of the contemporary Latin American society.