“The Prose of the Sea”. Vision, Cycles and Narrative Poetics of the Caribbean in a Novel by Germán Espinosa.
Keywords:
hipertextuality, palimpsest, cycle, poetic narrative, CaribbeanAbstract
The first part of this article is dedicated to the poetic narrative of the Caribbean that takes shape in the extensive literary corpus influenced by this dynamic, fluctuating, and indefinable region. The Caribbean surpasses its borders and spills out in a poetic cartography typical of mythical fractality. The notion of the Caribbean surpasses all geographical constructions and draws its cartography. Subsequently, a detailed analysis of the novel La tejedora de coronas, by the Colombian writer Germán Espinosa, exposes its hypertextual relationship with the vignette Los cuatro ciclos, by Jorge Luis Borges, based on the sequential structure established in the novel. Germán Espinosa reclaims the four stories that Borges previously proposed in his writing, that is, stories of a war, a return, a search, and a sacrifice, through the transatlantic journey of the heroine, Genoveva Alcocer. Therefore, this article will display how the four ancestral stories could correspond to different stages of the same story within a single cycle.
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