ABSTRACT The essay analyses the sense of finiteness and episteme in the Trilogía del siglo XX, a set of three novels, En busca de Klingsor (1999), El fin de la locura (2003) and No será la tierra (2006), by the Mexican author Jorge Volpi (1968—). To this end, it formally grounds the term ‘truth’ as good judgement or proposition and demonstrates that the search for knowledge and the fascination for total wisdom are integral to the human condition. The study links these novels’ ideological lines with contemporary discourses and with Latin American narrative. Finiteness and episteme are explained subsequently as key elements in our understanding of Volpi’s transtemporal search for knowledge. We conclude that truth is an impossible project and that the lives of human beings are simply narrations.

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拉丁美洲叙事的有限认识论：Jorge Volpi y la Trilogía del Siglo XX

摘要 本文分析了 Trilogía del siglo XX 中的有限感和认识，这是一套三部小说，En busca de Klingsor (1999)、El fin de la locura (2003) 和 No será la tierra (2006)，作者是墨西哥作家豪尔赫沃尔皮（1968—）。为此，它正式将“真理”一词作为良好判断或命题的基础，并表明对知识的探索和对全面智慧的迷恋是人类状况不可或缺的一部分。该研究将这些小说的意识形态路线与当代话语和拉丁美洲叙事联系起来。有限性和认识论随后被解释为我们理解沃尔皮对知识的跨时搜索的关键要素。我们得出结论，真理是一个不可能完成的工程，人类的生活只是叙述。