El carnaval criollo: apuntes para un análisis discursivo de la colección de los cuentos La mesa de los galanes

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe work of Roberto Fontanarrosa has the peculiarity of encompassing different fields of aesthetic production (graphic humor, comics, literature, theater and more) without losing its coherence. A close examination of these works reveals the fact that Fontanarrosa resorted to local clichés and the “Argentinization” of foreign subjects (westerns, spy novels, classic works of literature, superhero comics), which in turn accounts for their influence upon his own original fictional universe. In this article we propose to carry out a discursive analysis of the collection of short stories entitled La mesa de los galanes, from the perspective of Bakhtin’s concepts of discursive genre and “carnival literature.”