La memoria robadanarración mítica en Río de las congojas, de Libertad Demitrópulos
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Universidad de Murcia
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ISSN: 0048-7651, 0718-2295
Year of publication: 2022
Issue: 106
Pages: 715-735
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista chilena de literatura
Abstract
Libertad Demitrópulos, a writer from Jujuy of Greek origin, published in 1981 a unique historical novel under the title of Río de las congojas. Through an exhaustive review of the previous bibliography on the novel, this research approaches an analysis of the novel’s narrative structure, traversed by the voices of various narrators in their struggle to control historical memory, as well as other aspects related to the significance of cyclical temporality. Of all those voices that circulate through the text –analyzed from Walter Benjamin’s figure of narrator– Isabel Descalzo will be the one who interweaves, like a new Penelope, the voices of the other characters in a large collective shroud of the mythical foundation of Santa Fe –observed from Roland Barthes’s ideas about the linguistic significance of myths.