The vain attempt to evade destiny in the short stories of Marcos Carías Zapata
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| Formaat: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publicatiedatum: | 2026 |
| Omschrijving: | This reading, supported by the perspective of hermeneutic theory, proposes the hypothesis that the short story collections La ternura que esperaba (1970), Nuevos cuentos de lobos (1991) y Plaza mayor, circo menor (1994), by the honduran writer Marcos Carías Zapata, represent three particular forms of the same theme: the vain attempt to evade destiny. Thus, through a hermeneutic analysis of each short story collection published by the author, we seek to arrive at a unitary interpretation of the entire collection of short stories. The interpretive paths toward the proposed theme vary in each case: we will consider La ternura que esperaba as a hybrid between a short story and a coming-of-age novel; we will consider Nuevos cuentos de lobos as a reworking of a book published in 1941, entitled Wolf Tales; finally, we will consider the dialogue between the stories in Plaza mayor, circo menor and the author's historiographical thinking. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Instelling: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Taal: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/3245 |
| Online toegang: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rintersedes/article/view/3245 |
| Keyword: | Honduran literature; destiny; hermeneutics; literary genres; interpretation; Marcos Carías Zapata Literatura hondureña Destino Marcos Carías Zapata Interpretación Cuentos |