Many years later as he faced the firing squad
Keywords:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, time structure, periphrase haber de infinitive, Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
Abstract
The first sentence in One Hundred Years of Solitude has been qualified as a key piece of the novel’s time structure. Scholars have claimed that it involves time stagnation, irregular or chaotic time, even abolition of the future, or that it is a form of time anticipation. An empirical scrutiny of the temporal back and forth, particularly in the first chapter, displays, instead of chaos and stagnation, a sequence of refluxes which set the beginning of the story in a past more and more remote. All this is crucial for the right understanding of Colonel Aureliano too.Downloads
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Published
2012-10-23
How to Cite
Seguí A. (2012). Many years later as he faced the firing squad. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 41, 231-243. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2012.v41.40301
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