Simenon, Cortázar, Mendoza, robinsonnade, insularidad, predecesor.
Abstract
The Long exile (Georges Simenon, 1936), The Island at noon (Julio Cortázar, 1966) and La Isla inaudita (Eduardo Mendoza, 1989) do not clearly belong to the robinsonnade genre. In addition to traditional and postmodern formats of insular fiction, there is a third kind of robinsonnade: the ontological robinsonnade. The three texts selected for this paper —which are part of a broader research project— provide the big picture of this narrative format, so far uncategorizable. In these insular fictions, under different versions, we can always find a character acting as a mediator between the desired island and the avid protagonist. We will call this key character the Predecessor. Both the Predecessor and the protagonist form the cornerstone of the ontological robinsonnade.Downloads
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