Revista Chilena de Literatura

Miguel Castillo Didier. Poetisas y poetas de la antología palatina. Santiago: Centro de Estudios Griegos, Bizantinos y Neohelénicos, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile, 2023. 350 páginas.

María Eugenia Góngora-Díaz — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

La práctica de la traducción tiene una larga y compleja historia en el ámbito de la comunicación en las áreas más variadas, como sabemos, desde la política y la diplomacia hasta las relaciones comerciales; desde la religión y la proclamación de la palabra en las grandes religiones hasta la antigua discusión sobre el lenguaje sagrado de sus ritos más solemnes. La autenticidad y la sintonía entre las palabras traducidas y los textos de origen ha sido objeto de polémica y de reflexión teórica en los diversos ámbitos de las humanidades y de las ciencias sociales.

Luciano Martínez (editor). Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita. University of Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2022, 450 páginas.

María Ignacia Ulloa — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita corresponde al décimo volumen de la serie ACP (homenaje a Antonio Cornejo Polar) del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; fue publicado en 2022 y editado y compilado por el investigador Luciano Martínez. Está constituido por seis unidades centrales, a saber: I. En primera persona, II. En contexto, III. Archivo, performance y audiovisualidad, IV. Cartografías, V. Crónicas y VI. Itinerarios narrativos. Cada una de estas secciones contiene entre 3 a 4 ensayos o artículos de diversos escritores e investigadores y, en conjunto, van definiendo un aspecto de la vida y obra del escritor chileno Pedro Lemebel.

POETRY IN A CONTINENT WITHOUT NIGHTINGALESGALES

Niall Binns — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In his journal entry of September 29th, 1492, Columbus wrote that for the voyage to be truly
paradisiacal “all that was missing was the sound of the nightingale.” The lack of nightingales in the American continent marked its poetry from the start. Columbus said he heard them in the Caribbean; they can be heard, too, in Ercilla’s La Araucana. The article studies the abundance of nightingales (at times as Philomela) in Darío’s poetry, the textual mutilation they suffer at the hands of Huidobro, and their significant absence in Mistral and Neruda. It analyses the
nightingale’s importance in Argentine poetry due to a fascination for Keats’ “Ode,” and examines attempts to compensate for the lack of nightingales with human substitutes and, in Mexico, with the celebration of the mockingbird as a bird able to match the nightingle. It concludes in a dialogue with the nightingales that do indeed exist in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican poetry.

THE AGES OF LULU: FROM THE SENSUAL EROTICISM OF GRANDES TO THE MALE VOYEURISM OF BIGAS LUNA

Álvaro Martín-Sanz, Luis Pascual Cordero-Sánchez — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ages of Lulu is the erotic novel with a female point of view and acclaimed best-seller with which Grandes burst onto the literary scene. Following the success of this novel, Bigas Luna directed an equally popular adaptation in which the filmmaker follows in the wake of his first erotic productions, adapting the narrative of Grandes' novel to his own particular universe. This article proposes a comparative analysis between the novel and the film based on the hypothesis that although the Catalan director makes a reliable adaptation in terms of narrative, the main forms of the novel (the critical feminine perspective or the approach to sexuality) are lost in the transfer of formats. In this way, the erotic female narrative gives way to images that play with the genesis of a male pornographic representation in which the protagonist becomes the object of a voyeuristic male gaze, and is constantly subjected to a heteropatriarchal mode of representation.

WOMEN AND ANIMALS IN AMPARO DÁVILA: THE DOMESTIC BESTIARY OF FEMALE OPPRESSION

Estefanía Paz Hermosilla-Órdenes — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper analyzes the role and meaning that animals have in the stories of the Mexican
writer Amparo Dávila, particularly in those narrations starring female characters, in which
a relationship marked by repression, oppression and violence that both share as creatures subjected to the male order. On the basis of this link, it is suggested that, in the same way that in the Gothic the ghost was a key to represent the conflicts of women within the home, the figure of the animal in the horror stories of Amparo Dávila, acts as an expression of the terrible oppressions that women experience in their lives.

BIANCA’S ORPHIC JOURNEY IN ROBERTO BOLAÑO’S UNA NOVELITA LUMPENLAÑO’S UNA NOVELITA LUMPEN

Sergio Rodríguez-Nicolás — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Roberto Bolaño’s Una novelita lumpen (2002), although it hasn’t been studied by critics as
much as his most ambitious works (Los detectives salvajes y 2666), is a remarkable novel between the Bolañian novels narrated by just a character (Estrella distante, Nocturno de Chile, Amuleto o Monsieur Pain). Morover, most of the studies dedicated to Una novelita lumpen
look at the transmediality in regard to Alicia Scherson’s Il futuro. However, this article solely analyzes Una novelita lumpen, focusing on the narrative structure of the novel. This structure
is equivalent to the Orpheus story; that is, the initial situation altered by a disgraceful event,
the journey through the underworld and, finally, the return to the world of the living. The
protagonist of Una novelita lumpen, Bianca, goes through a journey similar to Orpheus, whose minutiae are truly interesting.

VALUING LITERARY WORK IN ¡YO! (1997), BY JULIA ÁLVAREZ AND CREATE DANGEROUSLY (2010), BY EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Giselle Román-Medina — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Drawing from ¡Yo! (1997), by Julia Álvarez, and Create Dangerously (2010), by Edwidge Danticat, I discuss how both authors have been accused of capitalizing on other people’s lives to better position themselves in the literary market, highlighting the ways in which these accusations have shaped their writing. I argue that in response Álvarez has assigned a therapeutic role to literature, thus defending her exclusive dedication to writing -even if only rhetorically-, while Danticat’s writing has incorporated traits of journalism as a way of legitimizing her work. Although these creative answers formally differ, both authors seek to validate their literary work in terms of a usefulness that negotiates with the demands that challenge them as diasporic writers.

EVERYTHING BURNS AND CRACKS IN THE NATIONAL HOUSE: CRACKED POETICS IN THE QUEER NEOBAROQUE OF PEDRO MONTEALEGRE

Ignacio Sánchez-Osores — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article analyzes the presence of homosexual subjectivity –castaway o homoerotic desire–in the poetry of the Chilean writer Pedro Montealegre. The poet contests and cuts a series of meta-stories that, while constituting the queer subject, exclude him at his margins (nation, canon, heteronormative gender, Marxist utopia). Specifically, I argue that the poet fabricates cracked poetics and lethal writing, employing figures such as a homosexual Cronos, a peripheral Pindar, and a plagued poseur, not only expose the fracture and destruction of these narratives, but also install a sidada memory that brings and exhibits the body suffering from HIV/ AIDS
to polemicize, thus, with the politics of post-cocktail oblivion.

BETWEEN THE CULT AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF: THE OTHER PATH OF THE PERUVIAN AVANT-GARDE OR THE CASE OF ALBERTO HIDALGO

Javier Teofilo Suárez-Trejo — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article argues that the poetics of Alberto Hidalgo (Arequipa, 1897-Buenos Aires, 1967)
has as its utopian horizon the cultivation of the self, experienced as a tireless poetic-existential
self-design. In the first part, the limits of the interpretation that José Carlos Mariátegui makes of the poet from Arequipa in his Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana (1928) are exposed. In the second part, the relations between the self and the world in Hidalgo’s poetics are described and analyzed, panoramically, on the basis of their similarities and differences with the poetics of his rival and contemporary Oliverio Girondo. Likewise, and for the first time, Hidalgo’s poetic libertarianism contained in his Tratado de poética (1945) and in Biografía de Yomismo (1959) is made visible as a poetic-existential route to deal productively with a reality that had experienced the terrors of totalitarianism.

THE POLICEMAN’S LABYRINTH IN THE BORGEAN ENIGMA OF THE NOIR GENRE

Gabriel Eduardo Vargas-Duque — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I try to show an interesting ambiguity that arises in Borges’s position with respect to the noir genre. On the one hand, Borges has a series of reluctance against the type of realistic and violent story that emerged in the United States. On the other hand, he seems to embrace elements of the noir genre in some of his stories. Thus, through three of his stories I will try to show the black overtones that part of borgean literature contains.

DISQUISITIONS ABOUT THE WRITINGS OF MANUEL SILVA ACEVEDO: WE GO INTO THE FOREST TO MEET SORCERERS AND CREATURES

Alex Ricardo Vigore-del Río — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article analizes the poetic work of Manuel Silva Acevedo through the phylosofical thought
of Deleuze and Guattari, thus reflecting on some elements present in the aesthetic machine of the 2016 chilean National Prize for Literature. Special attention will be paid to works from its initial stage (1967-1995), a representative scriptural corpus of his introduction and entrenchment in the national literary tradition. By means these poststructuralist keys, access is gained to a constantly deterritorializing poetry wich connects with relevant themes for the course of the history of creation in the West, such as beauty, ugliness, death.