
handle: 11587/336825
En una entrevista televisiva de 1977, hablando de su texto Los reyes, Cortázar afirma que la idea del libro le apareció como por ensalmo, casi como el aflorar de un recuerdo arquetípico, elaborando un ejemplo de genética del recuerdo. Esta especie de rayo de luz en la vía de Damasco le revela una manera nueva de entender la que él mismo considera la “versión oficial” del mito del laberinto y del Minotauro, en la que, a la mistificación histórica del monstruo encerrado en el laberinto y matado por el héroe cede el paso la figura del poeta excluido y recluido por el poder. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo una interpretación de significados de esta obra en clave histórico-política, insertándola en la dinámica contemporánea de los eventos. Una operación, ésta, que nos aleja bastante de la declaración a-histórica y anti-histórica evocada por Cortázar mismo en su entrevista.
In 1977, during a TV interview, Cortázar stated that his book Los reyes appeared in his mind all of a sudden, as if an archetypal memory was surfacing to consciousness. Like a lightning bolt, what he considered to be the real interpretation of the myth of the Minotaur and his labyrinth appeared to him: the story of the monster being killed by the hero was substituted by a picture of the poet being excluded from and imprisoned by power. Moving away from Cortázar’s explanation of his own work, the current paper provides an interpretation of Los reyes that takes into account its historical and political context.
Poder, Reclusión, Mito; linguaggio; labirinto, Language and Literature, Power, Arts in general, P, Discurso mítico, Laberinto, NX1-820, Labyrinth, Imprisonment, Myth
Poder, Reclusión, Mito; linguaggio; labirinto, Language and Literature, Power, Arts in general, P, Discurso mítico, Laberinto, NX1-820, Labyrinth, Imprisonment, Myth
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