| Revista: | Análisis (Bogotá) |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000314753 |
| ISSN: | 0120-8454 |
| Autores: | Flórez, Oscar1 |
| Instituciones: | 1University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Australia |
| Año: | 2008 |
| Número: | 73 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Literario |
| Resumen en inglés | This paper is part of a wider research project sponsored by the University of Canberra on the general topic of Analysis and Interpretation of literary short stories. One of the key elements in interpreting a short story is defined in the way the author structures its plot. The approach on how to develop the theme of the short story depends a great deal on how the writer structures the action of the story. Due to its length, a short story entails a structure whose essential characteristic is to be a meaningful and self-contained form. This form is the result of a process of concentration which does not allow dissipation or expansion and in which the really meaningful elements are being refined. Due to this concentration process of narrative time and setting, the author manages to encapsulate without delays or diversions a simple action or event whose plot has enough intensity to be captured as a meaningful synthesis. The writer of a short story is limited by genre constraints. He selects an event that is sufficiently meaningful and that serves as a window that allows the reader to transcend the anecdote and to glimpse the theme encapsulated in the plot. Through the plot the author shows the reader a wider reality; he makes the reader transcend to a reality with a more universal meaning as a dynamic vision that goes beyond the anecdotal aspect of the plot. As Julio Cortázar put it “a short story is meaningful when it breaks away from its own limits with an explosion of spiritual energy that suddenly brightens something that transcends the small and sometimes miserable story that is being narrated”. One arrives at that synthesis, at the theme of the story, “locked” in the plot, through the analysis of the different parts that configure its structure and the interpretation that the reader subsequently gives to it. The less explicitly this thematic meaning is expressed in the plot the more symbolic and allegoric the interpretation will be |
| Disciplinas: | Literatura y lingüística |
| Palabras clave: | Narrativa, Literatura, García Márquez, Gabriel, Colombia, "Rosas artificiales" |
| Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
