Writing and reality in three stories by Leonardo Padura: metonymic structure of prose as a process of dehierarchization

Keywords: Leonardo Padura, Metonymy, Stories, Narrative writing, Reality

Abstract

This work develops an analysis of the rhetorical procedures of the prose of some stories by Leonardo Padura: "Según pasan los años", "El cazador", "La puerta de Alcalá". In them in a vaguely way a "flattening" of the several elements of narrative representation would be configured. This procedure can be described as a metonymic continuity or as a "textualization" of various planes of semiotic immanence, which would result in a special narrative verisimilitude: the fictional and historical reality keeps dissolving their limits with any apparent change in a pertinent level. In this way, the domains of fiction are extended to the field of life forms and these forms are projected to textual significance.

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Published
2018-06-24
How to Cite
Mondoñedo, M. (2018). Writing and reality in three stories by Leonardo Padura: metonymic structure of prose as a process of dehierarchization. Letras (Lima), 89(129), 195-211. https://doi.org/10.30920/letras.89.129.9
Section
Short communications and research progress