Simulation of the self and inner monologue. A short story by Salinas

In contemporary storytelling, the narrative procedures evolve in their eagerness to penetrate the interior of consciousness and to develop techniques of simulation of the self as the inner monologue. When the narrated is situated on a plane other than space-time, and is built at the proper coordinates located in the inner zone of intimacy, we are faced with a reality governed by inner laws and marked by the time of mental processes. The writer tries to install us inside the mind of the character and refer to the reality directly internalized in the character. The term "stream of consciousness" refers to a type of narrative where the incessant passage of perceptions, ideas, feelings and the indefinable flow of inner experiences is simulated. Although born in the field of psychology, it was soon adopted by the critics of English language to define the voice used in works of the time, where the interior monologue and marked subjectivism opened a new path to the narrative. In the compilation of stories by Pedro Salinas, Vespers of the joy (1926), we find that interiority narrated as a flow of thoughts and impressions as they arise in the mind. In this way it places us at the crossroads of modernity.

Keywords: contemporary narrative; inner monologue; 20th century; plot; story; short story; Pedro Salinas