Figurar la guerra. Sujeto y estilo en Os cus de Judas de António Lobo Antunes
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.12.2012.47.71-81Keywords:
António Lobo Antunes, Testimonio, Literatura de guerra, Literatura portuguesa, Siglo xx, War Literature, Portuguese Literature, 20th CenturyAbstract
Obra pionera en el relato de la guerra colonial portuguesa y segunda novela de António Lobo Antunes, Os cus de Judas aparece en 1979 y pasa a formar parte de la búsqueda expresiva que persigue la primera narrativa de este escritor. El presente artículo explora cómo ese proyecto estético afronta la problemática lingüística y literaria de ofrecer el testimonio de una experiencia traumática como la guerra a través de un estilo que subraya su anclaje retórico. Será el trabajo con el lenguaje como herramienta comunicativa pero también como ejercicio autárquico, el que posibilitará y limitará la capacidad de dotar de sentido a una memoria erosiva. Bordeando la narrativa de la abyección, el relato tratará de recuperar una intimidad compartida por toda una generación silenciada por el discurso político oficial sobre el conflicto.
Abstract
António Lobo Antunes’ second novel, Os cus de Judas, is a pioneer novel of the Portuguese colonial war literary tradition. Published in 1979, the book becomes part of the author’s first narrative project of finding a self-expression through a narration which goes beyond every single novel. The article explores how that esthetical project faces the linguistic and literary problematics of presenting the testimonial point of view that deals with a traumatic experience such as war, by means of a literary style that always underlines its own rhetoric nature. The language, as a communicative tool and as an autarchic exercise as well, will facilitate and limit the possibility of giving sense to a subjective experience that is trying to be told as a collective intimacy, shared by a silenced generation.
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