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Revista Chilena de Literatura
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LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS:
LA HISTORIA DEL MITO YEL MITO
DE LA HISTORIA
Idelber Avelar
Duke University
!KI texto de placer se opondria, segun Barthes, a un texto de goce que el sujeto
experimental! a como perdida de referentes, como crisis de su relacion con el lenguaje (22) .
Cito por la traduccion brasilena () lhazer do Texlo.
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68 Ri-.vista Chii.kna dk Litkratura Ny 43, 1993
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La casa de los espirilus: La hisloria del milo y el... 69
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70 Rf.vista Chiijkna hk Litkratura Nl> 43, 1993
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La rasa de Ins espiritus: La hisloria del milo yd... 71
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72 Rkvista Chii.kna ok Litkratura Ny 43, 1993
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La casa de. los espirilus: La hisloiia del mi to v el... 73
BIBLIOGRAFIA
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74 Rkvista Chilena »e Literatura Na 43, 1993
ABSTRACT
En esle. articuln meprof)ongo a examinar la concefjcithi de HisUma suiiyacmte a La casa de Ins espirilus,
de Isabel Alhmde, suimiyando el JurJto d* qua el elemmlo "mdgico-maravilloso", f/resenlado par la
auUrra y porgran parlr. de la mlica como ntsgp dttjinidoY de la escrilura lalinoamericana, se emruentra
en verdad somelido a una vision posilivisla, progiesix/ay delerminisla de la Hisloria. I At ntiigjuxMnarar
villoso, desjmnristo de fundonalidad en eljnroceso de enunciation del lada, aparece asi como omamento
exolicn, en un pmceso defolklorizaaon de la realidad lalinoammcana.
This paper examines the concert of history which underlies I salmi Allende's La casa de las espirilus,
emphasizing the fart thai the so-called "magic-mawelous" element, as portrayed f/y the author and Ijy
many critics as a defining element of Latin American literature, is actually a realistic, \ 'progressive and
deterministic view of history. The magic-mawebvus, de\rrived of any functionality in the text's enuncia-
tion frrocess, ajfyears as an exotic ornament in the foikUnization jnocess of Latin America's reality.
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