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- Title
Sobre fantasmas e homens: Passado e exílio em Onetti.
- Authors
PINTO, Júlio Pimentel
- Abstract
The text analyses the relationship between history and fiction in the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti's (1909-1994) work through the representation of the past and the exile. To accomplish this, the text examines two tales, written almost twenty years apart: "La cara de la desgracia" (1960) and "Presencia" (1978). In "La cara de la desgracia", memories disturb the narrator, who glimpses, in a casual meeting with a young girl, the possibility to rebuild his memory and to free himself from the possession of the past. In "Presencia", a political tale written in Onetti's exile in seventies, the protagonist -- who is also an exile -- recreates reality through a fake investigation, to "compensating for disorientating loss by creating a new world to rule" (Edward Said). In the two tales, Onetti emerges as an "impertinent writer", foreign to the tradition of the Latin American boom and able to explore the boundaries of history and fiction.
- Subjects
LA cara de la desgracia (Short story); LITERATURE &; history; PRESENCIA (Short story); ONETTI, Juan Carlos, 1909-1994; EXILE (Punishment) in literature; LATIN American literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Varia História, 2017, Vol 33, Issue 62, p363
- ISSN
0104-8775
- Publication type
Short Story Review
- DOI
10.1590/0104-87752017000200005