“El infierno tan temido” de Juan Carlos Onetti
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Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)
En este ensayo, y a través de un análisis crítico, realizamos varias lecturas del conocido cuento El infierno tan temido de Juan Carlos Onetti. Lo analizamos desde el poema de Santa Teresa de Jesús y desde la visión existencialista de Camus y Schopenhauer. El autor hurga en la cara oculta de la vida y penetra en sus estratos profundos. Consideramos que el discurso de este cuento de Onetti con su genialidad escritural y su narrativa poética logra sobrepasar los límites del mundo literario hispanoamericano porque trata un tema universal y eterno desde una posición puramente onettiana: la existencia humana como infierno (tortura) y la necesidad de tener una razón de ser, que dé sentido a la existencia. Analizar esta obra de Onetti es comprometerse a penetrar el mundo extremo de su autor. El cuento presenta su cosmovisión acerca del absurdo de la existencia y lo logra, sobre todo, a través de las acciones radicales de sus coprotagonistas: Risso y Gracia.
Abstract In this essay and through a critical analysis we make several readings of the well-known story The hell so feared [El infierno tan temido] of Juan Carlos Onetti. We analyze it from a poem of Saint Therese and from the exis-tentialist visions of Camus and Schopenhauer. The author rummages into the hidden face of life and penetrates its deep strata. We consider that the discourse of this Onetti’s short story with his fictional genius and poetic narrative manages to exceed the limits of the Latin American lite-rary world because he deals with a universal and eternal theme from a purely onettian vision of the world: human existence as hell (torment) and the need to have a reason to exist. To analyze Onetti’s work is to commit oneself to enter Onetti’s extreme world. It is in his fiction where he presents his cosmovision about the absurdity of existence through the radical actions of the protagonist, Risso and Gracia.
Abstract In this essay and through a critical analysis we make several readings of the well-known story The hell so feared [El infierno tan temido] of Juan Carlos Onetti. We analyze it from a poem of Saint Therese and from the exis-tentialist visions of Camus and Schopenhauer. The author rummages into the hidden face of life and penetrates its deep strata. We consider that the discourse of this Onetti’s short story with his fictional genius and poetic narrative manages to exceed the limits of the Latin American lite-rary world because he deals with a universal and eternal theme from a purely onettian vision of the world: human existence as hell (torment) and the need to have a reason to exist. To analyze Onetti’s work is to commit oneself to enter Onetti’s extreme world. It is in his fiction where he presents his cosmovision about the absurdity of existence through the radical actions of the protagonist, Risso and Gracia.
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Science and Society; Vol. 45 No. 1 (2020): Science and Society; 75-84
Ciencia y Sociedad; Vol. 45 Núm. 1 (2020): Ciencia y Sociedad; 75-84
2613-8751
0378-7680
10.22206/cys.2020.v45i1
Ciencia y Sociedad; Vol. 45 Núm. 1 (2020): Ciencia y Sociedad; 75-84
2613-8751
0378-7680
10.22206/cys.2020.v45i1