The Balzacian character and the fantastic-postmodern characters in Ni falta que hace Dios

Abstract

In this article we make a comparative analysis between two types of character, specifically the nineteenth-century Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, because the realist writer thinks that the character should seem as much like as possible, a person. The second type of character is a combination of the fantastic character Rzt, Ñrp, Fhk, Oui and Eau de Ni falta que hace Dios by Dante Medina, in the manner of postmodernism the character is no longer a person, he is described through fragments by Yah or Hay, the omniscient narrator. We refer to two novels of different literary currents with characters from the same geographical space: Paris and, an alternate space, in Balzac it is the province and in Medina it is Guadalajara. They are interrelated literary contexts; both ironize the conduct of Man. Balzac overcomes romantic subjectivism and parodies —from a critical perspective— the Parisian everyday life and supremacy. Driven by the concept of ‘rupture’ and in his search for erudite science, Medina innovates with unusual figures typical from fantasy literature. Two fictions that signal of the movement of thought “what we are becoming” as Gilles Deleuze warned.