What is it about?
El Eternauta, the iconic Argentinian science fiction character created by the writer Hector German Oesterheld, has developed an increasingly complex significance. Regarded from the beginning as the stereotypical protagonist of an adventure story, he soon became a symbol of political oppression and metaphysical loneliness. Some authors, for example Ricardo Barreiro, have rewritten and reshaped El Eternauta’s story by including him as a secondary character in new plots. This has happened in comic books, notably Barreiro and Juan Giménez’s Ciudad (2015), in which El Eternauta, from a postmodernist point of view, destroys our certainties about fiction and reality.
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Why is it important?
Ciuidad by Barreiro and Gimenez is an Argentinian classic science fiction comic who deserves an insightfull study. Ciudad offers a postmodern view of urban landscape, a metaphoric meditation on human condition lost in laberynths of reality.
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Ciudad is perfect work to know how comics (though based on well defined narrative genre as science fiction) develope important subjects before of the arrival of graphic novel
Jose Manuel Trabado
Universidad de Leon
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This page is a summary of: Extranjero en tu propia ciudad. Una relectura de El Eternauta en la obra de Ricardo Barreiro, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, July 2017, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2017.47.
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