El arte de apropiarse de diversos medios artísticos en la narrativa colombiana reciente: ¿existe una estética relacional e intermedial en la literatura posmoderna de memoria?

Abstract Cultural memory is constantly reshaped across various media, with intertextuality and intermediality being crucial concepts in postmodern literature, which crosses media boundaries by incorporating elements from different arts to convey collective memories. Many texts follow a specific aesthetic: contemporary writers often appropriate and reinterpret diverse intertexts and images from other arts – painting, music, poetry – turning them into dynamic formulas of memory. Culturally relevant personalities – e. g. Borges – can also be used as figures of memory to negotiate the meanings of the texts. This paper focuses on the appropriation of these elements in Tomás González’s La luz difícil , Héctor Abad Faciolince’s “Un poema en el bolsillo” and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s La forma de las ruinas , in order to examine how intermediality, postmodern questions about the authorship of a work and the heritage of cultural memory in literature relate to each other. In the examined cases, an intermedial aesthetic can be observed that corresponds to the concept of relational art , which is characteristic of recent narrative fiction and in which multiple artistic, lyrical and musical elements are integrated.