IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Inversion and perversion of Greek Mithology in Marco Denevi' s Short narratives
Autor/es:
ZECCHIN DE FASANO, GRACIELA C.
Lugar:
Coimbra
Reunión:
Congreso; 12 th Celtic Conference; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Universidade de Coimbra- University of Edinburgh
Resumen:
ABSTRACTThe publishing of Falsifications by Marco Denevi in 1966, three years after the appearance of Rayuela (1963) by Cortazar clearly places Denevi in the context of the great Argentinian writers of the 20th century, along with Borges, Bioy Casares and Abelardo Arias, among others. Greek myths, especially those related to Odyssey and the Minotaur, were appropriated by Argentinian writers in an unusual way at that time and with a marked predilection for cycles. Perhaps a little overshadowed by those masterful presences, Denevi proposed in his book Falsifications a series of micronarratives whose title shows a notoriously and controversial reception: a ?desacralized? perspective, but which is supported ab initio as a derived falsehood. Among stories that pervert consecrated Spanish and universal literature texts, Denevi places mythical versions particularly focused on love, war, women, enabling, on the one hand, the treatment of Perseus, Oidipous, Orpheus, Odysseus, Polyphemus and Heracles, and on the other hand, characters such as Sirens, Helene and Penelope. We try to show that they are not presented aleatory, but they are included to discuss ancient versions told by mythographers as Apollodorus or other writers as Pausanias.