El Soundtrack de Pedro Cadavid. Música y subjetividad en La escuela de música de Pablo Montoya

Abstract

The superposition of music over events as a narrative correlate and a soundtrack appears in the novel La escuela de música (2018) by Pablo Montoya (Barrancabermeja, 1963). This article analyzes from the concept of subjectivity the possibility of the soundtrack as a narrative strategy. The author makes use of it to create a fabric of references and in this interweaving he traces a map of relationships and meanings; bildungsroman, along with autobiographical travestimiento (autofiction) and musical leitmotifs, where dramas (of politics, brotherhood, violence, among others) are presented as a backdrop, motivation, and imaginary setting. Navigating its construction involved, of course, an exercise of hermeneutic questioning that allowed me to unveil a narrative method and, at the same time, discover the epistemic possibilities of the text in a constant dialogue between (writing) music, and subjectivities.