Abstract
This article analyzes the short story “Agnieszka en la costa” by Hugo Fontana (included in his book Desaparicion de Susana Estevez, 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.
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Abstract: this article analyzes the short story “Agnieszka en la costa” by Hugo Fontana as a sophisticated re-elaboration of several narrative materials from the fictional world of Juan Carlos Onetti
Fontana shows an additional facet in his use of the detective novel devices: a critique about the political situation
Sumário: este trabalho oferece uma análise dos emprétimos e recriações que Hugo Fontana faz dos materiais narrativos provinientes da obra de Juan Carlos Onetti em seu conto “Agniezka en la costa”
Summary
Abstract: 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.
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