La «destrucción creadora» en dos cuentos de Juan Carlos Onetti (Crítica)

Abstract:

If it can be said that with the modern age, language ceased to be a sacred instrument, then towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the arbitrary character of the linguistic sign, reaffirming the secular character of the word was revealed. The author poses the idea that Juan Carlos Onetti in his book, reflects on the character and roles of the language in the text, profaning it, moving away from the all encompassing aims of the critic. In Onetti’s two tales («The possible Baldi» and «Full Moon») the characters write. In the former, Baldi stresses the arbitrary nature of all fiction (on this occasion, of a fiction about himself): he destroys the temptation of becoming a hero, by presenting himself as a pimp and trafficker, he seeks to provoke disgust in a romantic writer, who had been seduced by the word, without achieving it. The character of the second story, Carmencita, feels that she has failed as a writer, and that her aged body subjects her to the risk of mockery. Unlike Baldi, she does not dare to laugh at this possibility nor feel disgust, she dies trapped in a fiction which continues to be romantic. She ponders on the purpose of the language in the «reality» and in the fictions that create these beings of fiction.

Año de publicación:

2010

Keywords:

• PICASSO, PABLO, 1881-1973
• MODERNITY
• Modernidad
• ONETTI, JUAN CARLOS, 1909-1994
• LENGUAJE
• Literatura Uruguaya
• LITERARY CRITIC
• CRITICA LITERARIA

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