"La ocasión": una novela en el eje de la vacilación
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Durá Celma, Rosa
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2014
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Cuadernos de investigación filológica ISSN 0211-0547 Tomo 40, 2014, pags. 75-97
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This paper aims to analyze Juan José Saer's narrative strategy in the novel "La ocasión". The author takes over some of the characters belonging to Argentinian collective imagination -who are national mythts-, what allows him to show the pampas as a misty and insurmountable mythical place. The especial mapping of plain he draws is not only a geographic framework in which the landowner, the gaucho or immigrant face both the environment and the otherness. This may be understood as a metaphor of man's general condition. From a Lacanian orientation, the second part of this article examines the configuration of the main character from its central theme: spirit-matter dichotomy.