Las Noches de Babel by Ricardo Miró: modernity, mimicry and criticism of a novel from the Transit Zone in Panama

 

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Upphovsman: Pulido Ritter , Luis
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2025
Beskrivning:Taking into account the contemporary readings on Panamanian literature and, especially, on Las Noches de Babel (1913) by Ricardo Miró, I hermeneutically review the “romantic” readings made by Panamanian critics who condemned this novel to oblivion for being developed in a space that, for them, it was not essentially national and foreign, like the Transit Zone (which includes Panama City), where the plot of the novel takes place. Now, what I intend to demonstrate here is that, precisely, what Miró does is project a corrupt city and denounces the mimicry and superficiality of the city elites oriented by tastes and lifestyles towards the foreigner.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisation:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Språk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/58541
Länkar:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/58541
Nyckelord:reception
mimicry
criticism
Transit Zone
romantic
modernidad
mimetismo
crítica
zona de tránsito
romántico