AS MÚLTIPLAS IRENES E AS PERFORMANCES DE UM NOME EM QUATRO NARRATIVAS HISPANO-AMERICANAS

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Starting from the idea of intertextuality and dialogism in literature, this work aims to observe and analyse the repetition of a name, Irene, in four short stories of the Argentine-Uruguayan literary tradition linked to the aesthetics of the fantastic and the unusual, namely: from the Uruguayan Felisberto Hernández, “La casa de Irene” (1929); from the argentine authors Silvina Ocampo and Julio Cortázar, respectively, “Autobiografía de Irene” (1948), from the former, and “Casa Tomada” (1951) and “Todos los fuegos el fuego” (1966), from the last. Based on theoretical articulations with Bakhtin (2018) and Candido (2008), we understand that the character is one of the fundamental axes for the construction of the narrative and we seek to analyze how these “Irenes” were built textually, their relevance for each tale and, therefore, the possible links and dissonances between them all, demonstrating possible reading links between their authors.

KEY-WORDS: Hispanic-American narrative; short stories; intertextuality; rewriting; Cortázar; Hérnandez; Ocampo; Irene.