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Teoría de la narración en los ensayos de Juan José Saer: la novela latinoamericana, 1960-2000
Description
This research aims to develop a narration theory based on Argentinian writer Juan José Saer’s (1937-2005) four collections of essays: El río sin orillas (The River Without Banks) (1991) —which is thought by critics to be the Facundo of the 20th century—, El concepto de ficción (The Concept of Fiction) (1995), La narración-objeto (The Narrative Object) (1999) and Trabajos (Works) (2005). His essays examine the Latin American novel from 1960 to 2000, in other words, from the founding of the modern novel during the Latin American boom to its establishment as the most commercial genre upon the arrival of neoliberalism in Latin America in the 1990’s. Saer not only questions the novel in literary terms, but also contextually: from its relationship to politics and the Cuban Revolution and the years of literary compromise à la Sarte and the historical novel’s insurgency as the favored genre that settled the region’s past and present in the 1980’s to the conception of the genre as a commodity as large transnational entertainment consortia purchased all publishers. Within this context, Saer simultaneously critiques and formulates a theory on narration to oppose the novel. He presents narration as a continuation of a wasted and formulaic genre such as the historical novel. He juxtaposes the “real” to realism, ponders the impossibility of the historical novel, defends and rehabilitates the French noveau roman, which was much vilified by authors of the boom, demystifies Borges’ reading of the Argentinian tradition and at the same time confronts it with Witold Gombrowicz. He removes literature from the bonds of nationalism and Latin Americanism and contrasts Sartre’s ideas with German philosopher Theodore W. Adorno’s proposals about the novel during the cultural industry era.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Arellano Serratos, José Francisco (Author)
- Foster, David W (Thesis advisor)
- Tompkins, Cynthia (Committee member)
- Volek, Emil (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
v, 220 pages
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29833
Statement of Responsibility
by José Francisco Arellano Serratos
Description Source
Viewed on July 8, 2015
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full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2015
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220)
Note type
bibliography
Spanish and English
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language
Field of study: Spanish
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