La guerra grande vista por un sonámbulo

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24029/lejana.2010.1.8

Keywords:

Augusto Roa Bastos, Cándido López, War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay, battlefield painting

Abstract

This essay analyzes the story “El sonámbulo” by Augusto Roa Bastos in relation to the art that the Argentine painter Cándido López to represent the carnage of the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870). This Roa Bastos story hinges on uncertainties of representation, on the idea of the war as a waking nightmare only seen by a sleepwalker.

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BURTON, Richard (1870):L etters from the Battlefields of Paraguay. London, Tinsley Brothers.

FERNANDES, Carla (2001): Augusto Roa Bastos: Ecriture et oralité. Intro. Milagros Esquerro. París, L’Harmattan.

FERNANDES, Carla “Francisco Solano López: ‘el héroe máximo de la nación paraguaya.’” Caravelle 72 (1999), 57-71.

ROA BASTOS, Augusto (1993): El fiscal. Madrid, Alfaguara.

ROA BASTOS, Augusto (1984): “El sonámbulo.” En Cándido López: Imágenes de la Guerra del Paraguay. Paris, Franco Maria Ricci, 74-122.

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2017-01-09

How to Cite

Balderston, D. “La Guerra Grande Vista Por Un sonámbulo”. Lejana. Revista Crítica De Narrativa Breve, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2017, doi:10.24029/lejana.2010.1.8.

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No. 1 (2010): February 2010

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Studies

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