Antinomias porteñas contemporáneas y su representación novelesca: El muchacho de los senos de goma por Sylvia Iparraguirre

In her novel El muchacho de los senos de goma (2007), Sylvia Iparraguirre presents a verisimilar rendering of different antinomies pertaining to the Argentine capital in recent years that reflect the consequential effects of globalization. In effect, her work decisively and clearly treats economic, social, and even psychological dichotomies that have been asserted by a select body of scholars as factual ramifications of the mentioned global phenomenon over Buenos Aires and its inhabitants towards the end of the past century. Taking as its cue, as it were, both the salient and also more esoteric impacts of neoliberal economic policies during said time period, the cited novel proffers a correlative discourse that mimetically represents not just the visually discernible repercussions of globalization but it is noteworthy that Iparraguirre delves also into the elusive facets of the human psyche. In this way, her writing distinguishes itself for its ambitious attempt to achieve, albeit through the hypothetical lens of narrative fiction, a more comprehensive and thus more realistic depiction. Due to its life-like and inclusive illustrations of the historical issues described above, Iparraguirre's novel provides an intriguingly coherent and vivid representation of a critical era for Argentina, or rather its most populated city.