The testimonial condition of a writer in transition: Memorias curiosas of Juan Manuel Beruti

  • Virginia Paola Forace Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2015-1913

Keywords:

Argentinine literature, 19th century, Juan Manuel Beruti, literary analysis, memory

Abstract

This article examines the testimonial condition of Juan Manuel Beruti (1777-1856). To do so, it provides a brief theoretical review about autobiographical writing and its characteristics in late 18th century and early 19th century, and then performs a discourse analysis of Memorias curiosas, an extensive chronicle about the main events ocurring in the city of Buenos Aires from 1717 to 1855. The definition of “witness,” proposed by Paul Ricoeur, is used to understand the text as a testimony.

Keywords: Argentinine literature; 19th century; Juan Manuel Beruti; literary analysis; memory

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Author Biography

Virginia Paola Forace, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Profesora y Licenciada en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Becaria doctoral de CONICET. Trabaja en las cátedras de Teoría y Crítica Literaria II y Taller de Otras Textualidades en la misma casa de estudios. Ha publicado artículos en revistas especializadas y ha participado en Escenas interrumpidas II. Imágenes del fracaso, utopías y mitos de origen en la literatura nacional (2012) y Autobiografía y teoría (2012). Secretaria de redacción de Estudios de Teoría Literaria. Revista digital: artes, letras y humanidades.

 

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Published

2015-02-15

How to Cite

Forace, V. P. (2015). The testimonial condition of a writer in transition: Memorias curiosas of Juan Manuel Beruti. Anclajes , 19(1), 26–39. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2015-1913

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2015): enero-junio

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