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On the lookout for the infinite variations of chaos : approaching the work of Rodrigo Fresán
Ewa Bargielsubject
Hybridité génériqueStructure narrativeIntegrated storiesIntertextualitéAutofabulationVariations[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/LinguisticsNarrative structureNouvelles intégrées[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureArgentinean literatureGeneric hybridityMetafictionLittérature argentineIntertextualityMétafictiondescription
The aim of this thesis is to examine and interpret the sophisticated composition of Rodrigo Fresán’s “house of books” or “intertextual series”. Our research will demonstrate that the nine books of the Argentinean writer, in spite of their different generic classifications and their significant thematic diversity, form a coherent whole and they cannot be therefore analyzed separately. The continuity, the logic and, most importantly, the systematic nature of this literary project, that unites all the books of the author in an original and fractal intertextual series “in progress”, will be showed. Considering the fact that this work is characterized by a generic hybridity and a tension between the unification and discontinuity techniques, the processes of literary integration and atomization utilized in the integrated story collections and in the novels of the author will be presented. Then, a repetition and variation principle will be investigated as a main construction strategy of this continuum. Many fields of application of the repetition/variation mechanisms on various levels of the series will be explored. Our study will be concentrated mostly on the narrative structures, the metafictional dimension, the generic hybridity and the extraliterary models of the Fresán’s books, that is, his musical, pictorial, photographic, film, scientific and religious inspirations.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 |