The body, cast(out) of utopia. A commentary on The Automaton, by Xavier Abril

  • Matías Di Benedetto Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2018-2212

Keywords:

Xavier Abril, Peruvian literature, literary criticism, twentieth century, Perú

Abstract

Xavier Abril’s avant-garde nouvelle, The Automaton (1931), exhibits a distancing from the Peruvian indigenous narrative. In this regard, based on analysis of its most groundbreaking techniques, such as montage and fragmentation, or even through a review of paratexts prior to publication, one notices a challenge to both the concept of novel as well as that of subject. The latter is redefined by means of its conceptualization as automaton, a fundamental piece of a capitalist socioeconomic structure, and consequently its corresponding narrative form, the novel, whose characterization becomes a vehicle of said criticism.

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Author Biography

Matías Di Benedetto, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Profesor y Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Actualmente realiza el Doctorado en la mencionada casa de estudios; su tema de investigación tiene como objetivo el abordaje de la narrativa de vanguardia peruana de la década del veinte, haciendo especial hincapié en las obras de Gamaliel Churata, Martín Adán, César Vallejo, Mario Chabes, Adalberto Varallanos y Xavier Abril.

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Published

2018-01-22

How to Cite

Di Benedetto, M. (2018). The body, cast(out) of utopia. A commentary on The Automaton, by Xavier Abril. Anclajes , 22(1), 19–36. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2018-2212

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018): enero-abril

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Articles

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