Abstract

ARCOS-GUERRERO, Oscar Iván. Ce que je sais de Vera Cándida: Theme and Motifs of the Creator of Macondo. Folios [online]. 2018, n.47, pp.3-17. ISSN 0123-4870.

This reflection paper starts from general observations about what comparative literature allows as a discipline within literary studies. It emphasizes the need to promote the comparison between works from our continent and others from different regions around the world. In this sense, the paper proposes the analysis of the existing links between Ce que je sais de Vera Candida, by Véronique Ovaldé, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada and Cien años de soledad. The French novel appropriates the subject of Cándida Eréndira, thus re-creating an imaginary Latin American space and using some of the reasons present in the narrative of García Márquez, such as melancholy, loneliness, the cross marks on the forehead, and incest. This makes it possible to see not only on which works by Macondo's creator the author focused her attention while writing her novel, but also how she has updated them in the French literary context through her own fiction. The analysis proposed is supported mainly in Luz Aurora Pimentel's theory of comparative thematics and transtextuality. It also includes the approaches of thinkers and cultural analysts who have reflected on the points in common found between García Márquez and Ovaldé.

Keywords : Comparative literature; comparative thematics; contemporary french literature; 20th century colombian literature.

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