Artículo
The Sirens of Titan : el universo post-modernista de Kurt Vonnegut
Autor/es | Lerate de Castro, Jesús Antonio |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana) |
Fecha de publicación | 1994 |
Fecha de depósito | 2021-05-05 |
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Resumen | A close reading of The Sirens of Titan reveals that this early novel by Kurt Vonnegut, far from being a mere science fiction tale —as it has often been labelled— is a first-rate literary work in which the author displays ... A close reading of The Sirens of Titan reveals that this early novel by Kurt Vonnegut, far from being a mere science fiction tale —as it has often been labelled— is a first-rate literary work in which the author displays a great variety of metafictional devices. The metaphysical quest for meaning in life is paralleled by a tortous, roundabout physical journey where the ordered, controlled and harmonius universe— textually made coherent by its galactical slructure and mythical allusions— is challenged dialogically by a world of chaos which is sown with the absurd, with unexpected lexical yuxtaposition, indeterminations and de-mythologizing parodies. This paper aims to explore this post-modernist natura of the novel. |
Cita | Lerate de Castro, J.A. (1994). The Sirens of Titan : el universo post-modernista de Kurt Vonnegut. REDEN . Revista española de estudios norteamericanos, 8, 61-79. |
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