En busca de Klingsor or the impossible narrative

Abstract

This work explores the enunciative procedures used in En busca de Klingsor, by Jorge Volpi, in order to create a fallible narrator entity from which both actual literary storytelling and the authenticity of so called objective discourses, like science and history are commented. Parting from the relation with resources from both travel diaries and police novels, the paper studies the writing mechanics which allows the questioning of the narrator and what its fallibility means to the reading process.