Juan Carlos Onetti and inertia: creation, labor, and marriage in a repetitive world
Juan Carlos Onetti y la inercia: creación, trabajo y matrimonio en un mundo repetitivo
Juan Carlos Onetti e a inércia: criação, trabalho e matrimónio num mundo repetitivo
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Onetti Repetición Inercia Metanarrativa Trabajo Matrimonio Onetti Repetition Inertia Metanarrative Work Marriage Onetti Repetição Inércia Metanarrativa Trabalho Matrimónio |
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| Universidad de Montevideo | |
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| http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/1318 | |
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| Atribución 4.0 Internacional |
| Sumario: | This article examines repetition in the narrative texts of Juan Carlos Onetti that take place in the fictional city of Santa María. Adopting a panoramic but detailed view of several novels, the analysis focuses on how repetition empties the meaning of three anchors of identity and guarantors of meaning: literary creation, labor, and conjugal relationships. By removing any linear or progressive meaning, the repetitions create versions of writing, labor, and marriage that reveal a void rather than filling it. The universe of Santa María is redundant by nature, but that redundancy nullifies the myths that seek to prevent the individual from facing reality. |
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