Autómatas y maniquíes en la literatura uruguaya: el motivo de la muñeca en la narrativa de los montevideanos Felisberto Hernández y Hugo Burel

Absztrakt

The purpose of the present article consists of proposing a new interpretation of the nouvelle Las Hortensias, which the Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández published in 1949, with the aim of establish a comparative analysis with the short story "Belzebuth", from Montevidean Hugo Burel. Our work analyzes the motive of the creation of humanoids in the fiction, by comparing both literary compositions, product of the same cultural space, the Uruguay, and the same urban reality, his capital city Montevideo. Starting from the evidence of a common tension towards a writing that relates the “fantastic thing” to reality and daily facts, our comparative study will be based -first- on the analysis of the dominant motives on both stories, with the purpose of verifying the forms in which the humanoids interact between them and with other actors of the plot. In case of the automatons of "Belzebuth" our focus will be on the dynamics that take place in closed spaces, as a shams of contexts submitted to dictatorship.