Un hombre de Zapotlán colgado de Kafka: La literatura kafkiana de Juan José Arreola

• Authors: Brescia Pablo

Title variants

EN

A man from Zapotlán hung by Kafka: The Kafkaesque literature of Juan José Arreola

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The literary poetics of Mexican writer Juan José Arreola (1918–2001), one of the great figures of 20th century Latin American narrative, rests on three pillars: his inscription in a specific literary tradition, an authorial position as a “cultural megaphone” and his preference for fantastic literature. Within that literary tradition, for Arreola Kafka, perhaps like no other author, provides a possible literary lens to examine in depth the human being of our time. The purpose of this paper is to traverse this Arreola-Kafka literary bridge and to read some edges of the Kafkaesque in Arreola’s work, paying special attention to the possible communicating vessels between the two literary projects.

Keywords

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Juan José Arreola; Franz Kafka; literary poetics; fantastic literature; absurdity

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 33
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 85-95

Contributors

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Brescia Pablo