Listening (in the) Chronicle of Juan Villoro

• Main Author: Julieta Viú Adagio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2020-08-01
• Series: Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
• Subjects: literatura latinoamericana; juan villoro; crónica; escucha
• Online Access: http://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/catedraltomada/article/view/422

Juan Villoro, consecrated in Latin American Literature as a fiction narrator and prominent author in the Children's Literature publishing market, has developed in parallel a remarkable chronological production that has received little critical attention. The reading of these chronicles in conjunction with interviews given by the author allowed us to notice a self-representation as a chronicler versed in the art of listening. Theme that is the excuse to review part of his production with the focus on his ear attentive to the expressions and manifestations of mass culture. It is interesting to approach chronic listening, a characteristic aspect of its aesthetics, from analyzing the priority place of the voice of the soccer announcer Ángel Fernández, the links with the Mexican counterculture and the construction of a myth of origin that draws on mass culture.