The cities of Juan Carlos Onetti

Authors

  • Iuri Almeida Müller Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.4.27175

Keywords:

Tale, Narrative space, Literature and cities, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract

This research investigates the way how urban space is represented on the first phase of writing of the Uruguayan author Juan Carlos Onetti, so as the elements used on the literary construction of Santa María, fictional city created by Onetti that is present in his tales and novels as A vida breve. Similarly, from observation of maps, this essay looks to understand how the displacement of the characters, in the tales “Regreso al sur”, by Onetti, and “El sur”, by Jorge Luis Borges, shows cultural and geographic questions about the modern city – in this case, the city of Buenos Aires.

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Author Biography

Iuri Almeida Müller, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Mestre em Letras pela PUCRS. Doutorando em Teoria da Literatura pela mesma universidade.

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Published

2018-02-16

How to Cite

Müller, I. A. (2018). The cities of Juan Carlos Onetti. Letras De Hoje, 52(4), 437–445. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.4.27175

Issue

Vol. 52 No. 4 (2017): Literature in Spanish Language: Novels and Short Stories

Section

Literature in Spanish Language: Novels and Short Stories

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