Curious inhabitants. The work of Bustos Domecq and B. Suárez Lynch as an aesthetic and cultural discussion
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literary studies, aesthetic and cultural analysis, parody, satire, irony, literature, argentine culture, Bustos Domecq, Honorio, Suarez Lynch, B., pseudonyms, modernity, tradition, cultural criticism, Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 1914-1999, 20th centurySynopsis
This work analyzes how the collaborative work written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, published under the names H. Bustos Domecq and B. Suárez Lynch, articulates a discussion about Argentine literature and culture in the early decades of the 20th century. This highlights the authors' efforts to carry out an aesthetic renewal as well as to achieve a different configuration of the intellectual field. Among the multiple trends present in Argentine culture during those years (modernism, realism, avant-garde), regionalist realism takes on special importance in these texts as a target of parody. Likewise, a recurring theme throughout the corpus is nationalism in its different forms and historical mutations. The ideological position taken by the work of Borges and Bioy can be identified, in principle, with that of the magazine Sur; however, it goes further and acquires the anarchic characteristics of carnival, in the Bakhtinian sense, where everything is mocked, even themselves. From the marginal space in which this work is located, an attempt is being made to develop new aesthetic parameters, an operation that coincides with the crisis of realism that took place in Latin America beginning in the 1940s.
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