El "libertinaje imaginativo"la poética ecfrástica de Mario Levrero. Un análisis de "Los muertos"
ISSN: 1475-3839, 1478-3398
Año de publicación: 2013
Volumen: 90
Número: 8
Páginas: 983-994
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 )
Resumen
At the beginning of the 1970s Angel Rama explained the first publications of, among other young Uruguayan authors, Mario Levrero (1940-2004), as the emergence of a new narrative in a Uruguay influenced by crisis of the solutions brought about by the ‘generación crítica’; and by the influence of Julio Cortazar. Rama criticized Levrero for, in particular, his total abandonment of realism in his fictional writings, which he described as ‘libertinaje imaginativo’. My purpose in this article will be to explain how this ‘libertinaje imaginativo’ works and to analyse the role of ekphrasis and image in Levrero's fiction, particularly through reading the novella ‘Los muertos’ (1986), one of the texts that best illustrate his ekphrastic poetry. This novella anticipates most of the recent problems and some of the interests of contemporary Uruguayan fiction, which relate to the loss of the sense of reality and mass media penetration during the 1990s