Juan Carlos Onetti and inertia: creation, labor, and marriage in a repetitive world

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 mean...

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Glavni autor: Martínez Milantchi, José Darío (author)
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Jezik:španjolski
Izdano: 2024
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Online pristup:http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/1318
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Sažetak: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.