Lectura de un cuento desde una perspectiva cinematográfica: "Declinación y Ángel", de Antonio Di Benedetto

Abstract

Antonio Di Benedetto's writing has been frequently characterized as “experimental”. This can be often explained by the important influence of cinematographic art on the author, which is visible in the use of cinema procedures and in some of his short stories construction with images and sounds, as they were audiovisual products. Based on this premise, we do a reading of the long story or nouvelle “Declinación y Ángel” (1958) from a cinematographic perspective that analyzes the application of cinema techniques on the literary writing. We also investigate the traces which this kind of writing has left on the rest of Di Benedetto’s brief narrative, as well as the thematic and formal relation between his experimental texts and certain types of cinema, like Italian neorealism and French Nouvelle Vague.   Â