From LaZarillo to Occupy Z: Zombified Literary and Social Practices for the 21st Century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2017.146Keywords:
Lazarillo de Tormes, Zombi fiction, Rewriting, Hybrid Literature, Canon, FictionAbstract
In recent years several publishing companies have promoted zombified versions of classic fiction in a mass consumption period of zombie productions in films, TV, and graphic novels. Following this popular trending in Western societies, Spanish literature has already produced some titles. Furthermore, stories involving zombies are considered to become indicators of social concerns. Accordingly to this, the present paper focuses on how a classic picaresque novel –La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (1554)– has been transformed into a zombified story –LaZarillo: matar zombis nunca fue pan comido (2010)–, and how this literary transformation implies a critical rewriting of a canonical text in order to be able to link their historical concerns to a contemporary world devastated by a social breakdown mainly derived from the 2008 global financial crisis.
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