Conduita suicidară sau puntea spre înrobitoarea dezrobire în Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto de Héctor Abad Faciolince

• Authors: Ienceanu Lavinia

Title variants

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Suicidal Behaviour or the Path to the Enslaving Liberation in Héctor Abad Faciolince’s Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto

• Languages of publication: RO

Abstracts

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The present study advances a multifaceted approach to the suicidal gesture of Columbian Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto’s protagonist and to the latter’s multiple typologies exposed. Sharply brought into focus will be the suicidal strategy, the legitimacy and soundness of the motivation, as well as the connotative load of the suicidal behaviour, with a view to apprehending and subsequently fully understanding the character’s eschatological stance by ferreting out significant clues to adequate interpretation of both patent and latent cues of Gaspar Medina Urdaneta’s words and deeds. Turning to good account the self-annihilation pattern which the Columbian Don Quixote, in his capacity as both agent and patient of reduction and self-abduction to nought, gradually – if sometimes reluctantly – is spawning, we will shed revealing light on the symbolic function of the shoes and that proleptic of the memoirs – viewed as pre-suicidal undertaking –, both of them related to the archetypal framework of the novel’s dazzling denouement. Gradually succumbing to a tedium vitae which his flickering willpower helped induce, the hero under scrutiny seems to be swimming against the mainstream of Hispano-American vitalism, while additionally hovering within the orbit of thanatophilia and nihilocentrism. Half redemptive and half punitive – if partly the very fruit of a self-punishing drive – the suicidal gesture also speaks volumes for the protagonist’s life-long self-governing nature and, even more importantly, through the underlying disintegration and re-integration into nothingness, for his undeniably emancipatory impulse.

Keywords

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suicide; thanatophilia; death drive; nihilocentrism; self-destruction; de/reconstruction

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 19 (Multifaceted Approaches to Humanities I)
• Pages: 12-105

Contributors

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Ienceanu Lavinia

• “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania