Sin rumbo: perdidos en el desierto del mercado

Abstract

What kind of subjects produced a society when left exclusively to market forces, and when politics is subordinated to economic activity? Aren’t they privatized, indifferent, isolated creatures, such as Andrés, the protagonist of Eugenio Cambaceres novel’s Sin rumbo? In a social world where the relationship between individuals is competition, Sin rumbo confuses analleged common nature to man and beast with what a society under the specific economic conditions of savage capitalism, makes of people like Andrés –privatized, vulnerable, unstable creatures competing in aneconomic space which from a cultural perspective remains a desert where only the fittest survive.