A discreet homage to Juan Carlos Onetti: “Agnieszka en la costa” by Hugo Fontana

Un discreto homenaje a Juan Carlos Onetti: “Agnieszka en la costa” de Hugo Fontana

Uma discreta homenagem a Juan Carlos Onetti: “Agnieszka na costa” de Hugo Fontana

Rodríguez Mansilla, Fernando
Detalles Bibliográficos
2019
Agnieszka en la costa
Hugo Fontana
Juan Carlos Onetti
Recreación literaria
Agnieszka in the Coast
Hugo Fontana
Juan Carlos Onetti
Literary re-creation
Agnieszka na costa
Hugo Fontana
Juan Carlos Onetti
Recriação literária
Español
Universidad de Montevideo
REDUM
http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/319
Acceso abierto
Atribución 4.0 Internacional
Resumen:
Sumario:This article analyzes the short story “Agnieszka en la costa” by Hugo Fontana (included in his book Desaparición de Susana Estévez, 2015) as a sophisticated re-elaboration of several narrative materials (characters, scenes, and topics) from the fictional world of Juan Carlos Onetti. I aim to reveal the painstaking narrative design of Fontana’s work, as well as the implications on meaning of this literary remaking. Fontana shares with Onetti a strong interest in the detective novel and they both incorporate resources from this genre to their works. However, Fontana shows an additional facet in his use of the detective novel devices: a critique about the political situation.