The Chronotope in the Postmodern Costa Rican Minifiction of Luis Antonio Bedoya in his microfiction La maldición (2024)

 

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Autor: Ugalde Barrantes, José Daniel
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2026
Descripción:The main objective of this article was to analyze the mythical chronotope of Odysseus’ journey in the Costa Rican postmodern minifiction of Luis Antonio Bedoya, specifically in his micro-story La maldición (2024). For this analysis, it is necessary to focus on literary theoretical categories. First, Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, understood as the fusion of time and space, allows us to examine how the everyday chronotope of a simple room in San Pedro, Costa Rica, can function as a threshold for the insertion of a mythical chronotope such as Odysseus’ journey. The Costa Rican micro-story demonstrates how the mythical chronotope anticipates the fatality of the main character, whose life is portrayed as that of an inverted Odysseus, not because he undertakes a heroic return, but because he becomes trapped in a fatal temporality produced by his own writing.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/8451
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rpensamiento-actual/article/view/8451
Palabra clave:chronotope
intertextuality
mythical chronotope
domestic chronotope
threshold
Cronotopo
intertextualidad
cronotopo mítico
cronotopo doméstico
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