The Absurdism in Guillermo Barquero's "La hora de las confesiones" and El extranjero by Albert Camus: a Comparative Study

 

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Autore: Huertas Arredondo, Kimberly
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2022
Descrizione:The main objective of this article is to analyze the different features involved in the intertextual analogy between the tale “La hora de las confesiones” (2013) by the Costa Rican writer Guillermo Barquero and El extranjero (1942) by the writer Albert Camus, in which the philosophy of absurdism is presented. Particularly, this study focuses on the expressive features of the absurdism and its implications regarding the arrangement of the textual interweaving of the story. As theoretical and methodological referents, the philosophical essay El mito de Sísifo (1942) and the intertextuality theory by Julia Kristeva (1978) are going to be used. It was found that the text has an intertextual correspondence with the philosophy present in El extranjero by means of Kafka that uses techniques such as strangeness, as well as the creation of an absurd climate and the overcoming of the absurd through rebellion, freedom and passion. In the other hand, there are some divergences between the two authors.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51200
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/51200
Keyword:Philosophy of the absurd
Costa Rican literature
comparative literature
French literature
Central Américan literature
Filosofía del absurdo
literatura costarricense
literatura comparada
literatura francesa
literatura centroamericana