Gaspar Mora: mythical and moral basis in Augusto Roa Bastos’ Hijo de hombre
In his literature, Augusto Roa Bastos explored, on multiple occasions, diverse ways of narrating the conflictive history of Paraguay. The novel Hijo de hombre, originally published in 1960 and revised in the 1980s, is part, along with Yo el supremo and El fiscal, of a trilogy that reconstructs a gen...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humandiades. Instituto de Letras
2025
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| Sumario: | In his literature, Augusto Roa Bastos explored, on multiple occasions, diverse ways of narrating the conflictive history of Paraguay. The novel Hijo de hombre, originally published in 1960 and revised in the 1980s, is part, along with Yo el supremo and El fiscal, of a trilogy that reconstructs a genealogy of power in the author's native land. In this work, as in others, Roa Bastos dramatizes the tension between written and oral tradition (represented in Paraguay by Spanish and Guaraní, respectively), proposing a necessarily syncretic Paraguayan mythology, centered around the figure of Gaspar Mora, a fictional carver and leper who raises the wooden Christ of Itapé. |
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