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Numa And The Nature Of The Fantastic In The Fiction Of Juan Benet, David K. Herzberger
Numa And The Nature Of The Fantastic In The Fiction Of Juan Benet, David K. Herzberger
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Perhaps the most rewarding critical approach to the novels of Juan Benet is one that encompasses the irrational and seeks to reveal the mysterious— one that can be closely identified with the notion of the fantastic. The view of the fantastic developed in the present study is based on a synthetic modification of the precepts of Todorov and Rabkin, and places emphasis on the hesitation of the reader when confronted with a diametric reversal of the laws of the text. Both the literary theory and prose fiction of Benet can be closely linked to the fantastic: the former through Benet's …
Vital Space In The House Of Buendía, Nina M. Scott
Vital Space In The House Of Buendía, Nina M. Scott
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In terms of both narrative and thematic organization, Gabriel Garcia Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude deals with tightly-closed structures. Whereas from the beginning Macondo has been interpreted in a variety of ways, critics have paid less attention to the meaning of the Buendía house itself. A close reading of the text shows that the way in which certain characters interact with the physical spaces of the house is highly symbolic and closely related to the thematic development of the entire novel. The rise and fall of the Buendía dynasty is presided over by three women, who function as the …