"La importancia de los sueños en 'La noche boca arriba' y 'El etnógrafo'"
Los sueños han sido considerados un elemento místico a través de diversas culturas y épocas, una forma de llave astral con la capacidad de guiarnos ya sea a dimensiones paralelas, a un viaje introspectivo a lo más profundo de nuestro ser e incluso a predecir el futuro. La utilización e interpretación de los sueños ha cautivado al ser humano y tanto Borges como Cortázar no son la excepción; en sus obras "El etnógrafo" y "La noche boca arriba" respectivamente, los author es nos plantean dos propuestas del rol que los sueños pueden tomar en una obra literaria. En el caso de Borges, de una manera sutil y que podría pasar desapercibida, centra su historia en cómo la interpretación de los sueños pueden ser la clave para descubrir el más grande secreto que un ser humano pueda imaginar, a la vez que nos muestra como la escritura (representada por los sueños) es capaz de llevarnos a este proceso de descubrimiento tan personal e intrínsico. Cortázar, por su parte, utiliza los sueños como una parte activa en la narración que nos transporta a un microcosmos paralelo, y no es sino hasta el final de su obra que descubrimos qué plano es el que corresponde al de los sueños. A través del presente ensayo pretendo estudiar el manejo de los sueños como un recurso literario y denotar las similitudes en la obra de ambos author es. Cortázar en su obra "La noche boca arriba", nos presenta dos voces: la del paciente accidentado y la del moteca perseguido; las dos voces son articuladas por dos narradores en tercera persona y forman un contrapunto entre realidad y sueño, sin embargo, hacia el final existe un desplazamiento, ya que la realidad y el sueño cambian de silla debido a la existencia de una oposición que desde el comienzo es también una complicidad: el sueño no es mas que el escape del indio, en donde el soñador se convierte en sueño de su propio sueño (Alazraki, 134). Mientras que el author nos presenta en uno de los planos narrativos una visión que resulta "realista" y espontánea, al cruzar de plano nos encontramos con una versión sobrenatural de los mismos eventos; a pesar de ello, el author manifiesta una naturalidad impecable con lo que logra efectuar una transición "fantástica" pero sutil, en la que los
When it comes to analyzing the “banana massacre” scene in chapter 15, I found three narrative techniques the author used to describe this scene. Therefore, one can notice that this part of the book is the climax. As a result, one infers what the author is trying to say about Latin American history and politics.
Alfredo Corchado — is the author of the book named " Midnight in Mexico:A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness”. We are, probably, all interested in finding out the facts, news, and gossips about Mexico. This country was always associated with something mysterious. For me personally, the title of the book seemed to be very gripping, I was interested in revealing the secrets of life in Mexico, thus I decided to read this book. I was really curious, what can Alfredo Corchado tell me about the life in this country, the country, where the constant massacre is the picture, people used to see. In his book, the author tells the reader about the real situations, which took place in Mexico, reveals the secrets of the people’s lives and tells the story from the “inside”. He describes the way he lives his life, and does his work. The " Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” is a memoir. Author tries to transform his own experience into the story line. Corchado shows the reader the darkest episodes of Mexican society, while relying on his own experience.
Bartolomé de Las Casas begins by providing a vivid description of each land being invaded by the Europeans and the type of peopl...
Valle’s most significant contribution to the Spanish theatre is his invention of the literary style of esperpento, which is best represented in one of his most famous plays, Luces de Bohemia. Valle created esperpento with the aim of representing the harsh realities of Spanish twentieth century society through the concave lens of grotesque deformation, so that he could present the lives of the Spaniards in the light of mockery and absurdity. During his writing of Luces de Bohemia, the Spanish society has been brought to a halt, along with the lack of political progress and social improvement, therefore this concerning political situation has influenced and steered Valle towards his literary evolution, the exaggerated grotesque, which he though was the only suitable way to represent the shocking reality and problems of Spain. In this way, he could alarm the people to terminate their complacent acceptance of this reality and he could also produce a distancing effect which renders the reader immune to the play’s purpose, thus making the artistic experience more tolerable. His experience in the killing fields was what made him t...
This places the reader in recognisable landscape which is brought to life and to some extent made clearer to us by the use of powerful, though by no means overly literary adjectives. Machado is concerned with presenting a picture of the Spanish landscape which is both recognisable and powerful in evoking the simple joys which it represents. Furthermore, Machado relies on what Arthur Terry describes as an `interplay between reality and meditation' in his description of landscape. The existence of reality in the text is created by the use of geographical terms and the use of real names and places such as SOrai and the Duero, while the meditation is found in...
Family is one of the most important institutions in society. Family influences different aspects of a person’s life, such as their religion, values, morals and behavior. Unfortunately, problems may arise when an individual’s belief system or behavior does not coincide with that of family standards. Consequently, individuals may be forced to repress their emotions or avoid acting in ways that that are not acceptable to the family. In the novel The Rain God, written by Arturo Islas, we are presented with a story about a matriarchal family that deals with various conflicts. One major internal conflict is repression. Throughout the novel the characters act in strange ways and many of the family members have internal “monsters” that represent the past that they are repressing. In his article, “The Historical Imagination in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God and Migrant Souls”, Antonio C. Marquez’s implicitly asserts a true idea that The Rain God is a story about repression. Marquez’s idea can be supported from an analysis of secondary sources and a reading of the primary text.
Each of us human is alone in our hearts. It is the only place that we are afraid of letting anybody in. We rarely break through the ultimate solitude, but only to reach out to the miracles beyond our world of living, to find out that the strength of love and hope have not abandoned us. Writing about the spectacularity event of life, Marquez could not help stepping in between the magical world and the reality to tell us a tale about “The handsomest drowned man in the world”- the tale of a coastal village interrupted by a man washed up to the shore.
Conclusively, throughout Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes explores the transformation of reality. By doing this, he critiques and reflects conventional societal literary norms. In three distinct scenes, Don Quixote or his partner, Sancho, transform reality. Often they are met with other’s discontent. It is through the innkeeper scene, the windmill scene, the Benedictine friar scene, and Quixote’s deathbed scene that Cervantes contemplates revolutionary philosophies and literary techniques. The theme of reality transformation does not even stop there. Sometimes the transformations of reality scenes act as a mimetic devices. Ultimately, Miguel Cervantes use of transformative scenes acts as a creative backdrop for deeper observations and critiques on seventeenth-century Spanish society.
Soto’s “Black Hair” is a perfect example of a poem that is effective through close analysis of certain concrete images which hold the key to the foundation of the poem and its underlying themes. In this poem, the universal themes of family and culture are hidden under the figure of Hector Moreno, the image of the narrator’s hair, as well as the extended baseball metaphor about culture. Although the title may seem ordinary at first glance, the challenge that the poem presents through its connection of concrete images and themes is very intriguing, and the themes are made clear through the effective use of certain poetic elements.
Giants and Angels roam the pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s stories, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World”, creating the perfect scene for magical realism. Many of the elements within these stories coincide with each other; this has everything to do with the overall component of magical realism, which binds together similarities and sets apart differences. The theme of each story can be found within the other and can stand by itself to represent the story it belongs to, the settings are similar in location and the ability to change but different in their downsides and the writing style is so similar it is complicated to find any differences. Marquez is a master story-teller whose works of art can only be compared with each other.
Author’s Techniques: Rudolfo Anaya uses many Spanish terms in this book. The reason for this is to show the culture of the characters in the novel. Also he uses imagery to explain the beauty of the llano the Spanish America. By using both these techniques in his writing, Anaya bring s the true culture of
This fiction symbolizes one of Marquez’s perfect examples of the magical elements that can highlight the disenchanted reality of the people, the critique of politicians, and to demonstrate that anyone is capable of changing. Since it is predictable that the best show for the audience, it is the one that makes anyone believe that their lives will be better if one is reelected.
In the beginning of Cortazar’s “La Noche Boca Arriba”, our main character gets into a motorcycle accident caused by a woman randomly screaming (Cortazar, 1964). This sets the audience up for the events that follow. From the beginning of the story, we can see ...
In “The Fortune Teller,” the author, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, uses symbolism to prove to one that an affair is not worth a person’s life. He uses the letter to symbolize hate between Villela and Camillo regarding the affair. This very ambiguous letter has terrified Camillo and put an end to his life. The letter enhances the theme of the short story by showing the anger and hate that Villela now had for Camillo. This hate is a focal point in the short story that leads to ending the affair along with Camillo and Rita’s life. Ultimately, the affair caused a large amount of tension between the three. However, the author was successful in grabbing the reader’s attention with the letter as the turning point of the short story.
La multiplicidad del cuento es un tema repetido. El narrador describe el cuento y usa una multitud de sucesos, palabras, ideas y personas repetidos. Durante del cuento, el hombre sueña de crear un hijo sin otro. La creación de un hijo representa la repetición del hombre y la continuación de vida. También, el hombre tiene dos planes para crear el hijo cuales involucran la supernatural y la realidad del mundo. Después de su primer intento creativo falla, él está frustrado y casi quita. Luego, él examina y modifica su método de crear y acude a la intervención de los dioses para intentar un mejoramiento de la creación: "Luego en la tarde, se purificó en las aguas del río, adoró los dioses planetarios, pronunció las sílabas lícitas de un nombre poderoso y durmió." Solamente los dos, El dio, Fuego, y el hombre, saben que el sueño va a estar un realidad a eso tiempo. Sin embargo, el narrador sabe que el resultado no sigue los dos planes de los personajes. La repetición de los planes, los personajes, la recreación de otra vida y la realidad de estos elementos por el narrador crea la ilusión de realidad para el hombre.