What is it about?
This article intends to link the Felisbertian semiotics to the crisis of the foundational myths of the nation as a symbolic context of production. From three of his most emblematic works - ‘Nadie encendía las lámparas’, ‘El balcón’ and ‘El acomodador’- we attempt to delineate an aesthetics of the margin and the vacuum as a counterpart of the national symbolic semiotics.
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Why is it important?
The article outlines the importance of a generation of Uruguayan writers, the so-called generation of 45, who appropriate the myths of the modern nation , subverting their mystifying intention and destabilizing the concept of text, as well as the notion of identity.
Perspectives
This article is intended as a contribution to the study of a key author in the development of Uruguayan literature and the Latin American literary canon.
Dr Federico Lopez-Terra
Swansea University
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This page is a summary of: El vacío fundante en la estética de Felisberto Hernández, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, January 2013, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2013.5.
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