Alonso Quijano o el relativismo inmutable

Abstract

Marshall Mcluhan, autor de “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, sostiene que con cada nueva tecnología al hombre le es dado reiventar su humanidad. Con el advenimiento de la imprenta, el hombre medieval habría de reiventar la suya y dicha reivención hallaría su máxima expresión en Don Quijote. Su personalidad dividida, Quijano / Quijtoe, representa el drama de un hombre a caballo entre el mundo tribal del manuscrito y el mundo solitario del libro impreso. Para Quijano, la lectura se transformará en garantía de la existencia y el acto de ver, en el espacio hiperbólico del yo. En este sentido, Don Quijote representa al hombre engrosado sobre sí mismo y se transforma por esto en una meta-lectura de la identidad. Marshall Mcluhan, author of “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, maintains that with the coming of each new technology, man is urged to reinvent his humanity. With the invent of printing, medieval man was compelled to reinvent his, and this reinvention would find its best expression ind Don Quixote. His split personality, Quijano / Quijote, dramatizes the conflict of a man installed at the threshold of two worlds: the tribal world of the manuscript and the isolated world of the printed book. For Quijano, the act of reading becomes the only guarantee of existence and the act of seeing, the hyperbolic space of the self. In this sense, Don Quixote represents man grown beyond himself and is transformed by his into a meta-reading of identity.