Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Uriarte, Javier | Firbas, Paul
Date
2015-12-01
Keywords
Language
Department
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature.
Language
es
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77698
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
El propósito de este trabajo es analizar los cambiantes significados que adoptan las ideas de frontera y desierto (y también las relaciones entre ambas ideas), en tres textos: Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, (1870) de Lucio V. Mansilla, Ema, la cautiva, (1981) de César Aira, y finalmente Il deserto dei tartari, (1940) de Dino Buzzati. El análisis se concentrará en estos puntos principales: 1. La frontera como espacio y lugar 2. La frontera como un espacio a defender. 3. La frontera como expresión de poder. 4. La frontera como un espacio a conquistar. La manera de proceder no sigue un orden cronológico sino geográfico para poder probar cómo las ideas de frontera y desierto, en la lectura de Mansilla y Aira, en varios casos coinciden, en cuanto ambas se refieren a la “frontera†argentina durante los siglos XIX y XX, que es vista como un “desierto†, que significa, en la excepción común, una tierra que es desierta y sobre todo considerada de nadie que necesita ser tomada y explotada. Por el contrario, en Buzzati se verá que estos dos términos son bien distintos, y que la frontera es una frontera (real) entre dos estados, (a pesar que estos últimos no son reales sino imaginados) y el desierto es una tierra árida que comienza desde la frontera. Además veremos que el concepto de frontera es más importante en Aira y Mansilla, mientras que Buzzati da más importancia a la noción de desierto. | This dissertation analyzes the work of the writer Juan José Saer (Serodino, Argentina 1937–Paris, France 2005) by identifying the correlation between his essayistic and narrative work, and thus focusing on the convergence zone between these two fields. Saer’s writings demonstrate a constant tension between the massive circulation and consumption of cultural products, including the genre of novel, and certain marginalized literature. Specifically, the thesis analyzes aspects that involve his conception of the theory of novel, the fiction as an anthropological speculation, the cultural industry, the role of mass media in literature, and the binomial concept of the reader and public, having in the horizon the works of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Umberto Eco and Jose Ortega y Gasset, among others. As the axis of both fields (his fictional and essayist writing), the thesis studies the hybrid text El río sin orillas (1991) where it converges a series of issues that are crucial for understanding Saer’s vision of literature. The presence of the river is iconic in Saer’s narrative. The form of the novel and the narration are in constant conflict in Saer’s literary works. The perception that his fictional and essayist work must be understood as complementary guides the whole body of this dissertation. The first two chapters cover the aforementioned topics. In the following two chapters, this project analyzes two novels, El entenado (1983) and Glosa (1986) under the optic of memory and experience. The thesis also reviews the work of criticism around Saer´s writings. Metaphorically speaking, Saer’s entire body of writing can be seen as a single text that has different expressions in the totality of his literary work. As a result, this project contemplates the difficulties of integrating fragmented narratives into a singular completed work. | 124 pages
Recommended Citation
Giua, Michele, "¿Fronteras móviles? El desierto en Lucio Victorio. Mansilla, César Aira y Dino Buzzati" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3489.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3489