Fernando Contreras Castro’s novel Única mirando al mar (1993 and 2010) is a bitter, scathing social critique of Costa Rica’s government, a government which only occasionally remembers its duty to its taxpayers and its environment. Rewritten in 2010 after the closure of Río Azul, a landfill near San José, the novel explores the way this action affected the population of the landfill, locally known as the buzos. Analyses of the novel address primarily the buzos’ resilience and the complexity of the relationship between the buzos’ society and the rest of the country. This study will consider the buzos’ society as a social order based on habit, and trace its adaptability and persistence in the face of multiple changes to the buzos’ life. To this end, I will use the theory of posthegemony with a particular focus on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habit and habitus to explore the adaptability and persistence of the buzos’ habitus as reflected in habitual practices, rituals and ritual language. I will analyse the 2010 version of the novel, published after the closure of the landfill.

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当习惯在城市垃圾场遇到习惯：Única mirando al mar (2010) 中习惯的持久性和适应性

费尔南多·孔特雷拉斯·卡斯特罗 (Fernando Contreras Castro) 的小说 Única mirando al mar（1993 年和 2010 年）是对哥斯达黎加政府的尖锐、尖锐的社会批评，该政府只是偶尔记得其对纳税人和环境的责任。2010 年，在圣何塞附近的一个垃圾填埋场 Río Azul 关闭后，这部小说被重写，探讨了这一行动如何影响垃圾填埋场的人口，当地人称为 buzos。对小说的分析主要解决了野牛的复原力以及野牛社会与该国其他地区之间关系的复杂性。本研究将野牛的社会视为一种基于习惯的社会秩序，并追溯其在面对野牛生活的多重变化时的适应性和持久性。为此，我将使用后霸权理论，特别关注皮埃尔·布尔迪厄 (Pierre Bourdieu) 的习惯和习性概念，以探索反映在习惯性实践、仪式和仪式语言中的 buzos 习性的适应性和持久性。我将分析垃圾填埋场关闭后出版的 2010 年小说版本。