Abstract

GAITAN BAYONA, Jorge Ladino. Metafiction and Writing of Disaster in Simone by Eduardo Lalo. La Palabra [online]. 2014, n.24, pp.79-87. ISSN 0121-8530.

This article analyzes Simone (2011), by Eduardo Lalo, Romulo Gallegos Internacional Novel Prize 2013. This fictional work presents the vision of a Puerto Rican writer disenchanted with the possibilities of literature in the XXI century. It consists of a fragmented narrative in which intertextuality alternates with images of the city of San Juan, multiple memories, and digressions about reading and literary creation. For the study of Simone we have used the concepts of Maurice Blanchot in The Writing of the Disaster.

Keywords : Novel; Puerto Rico; metafiction; disenchantment; disaster.

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