The illusion of the One. Childhood as “Free Space” and Humor as a Vehicle for the Transcendent in Mario Levrero’s Narrative

We propose to analyze the role that humor plays in the work of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. From the critical reading of stories from different moments of his career, we highlight that it is an indispensable resource for the construction of his poetic that allows him to delimit himself from the aesthetic presuppositions of what Ángel Rama (19) calls the critical generation. The Uruguayan conceives his writing as a therapeutic device and humoras a vehicle towards the transcendent. From a worldview that appropriates remains of romanticism, parapsychology and Jungian psychoanalysis, Levrero pursues in his texts access to the Spirit/Unconscious, an (im)possible path to the (self)knowledge. Literature then becomes a “free space” that associates with childhood, is realized in writing and is opposed to the alienated life of adults, in particular, that of the everyday self of the author, Jorge Varlotta.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6617
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12819
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/12866; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12819
• Palabra clave: Mario Levrero; Latin American Literature; humor; childhood; writing; Mario Levrero; Literatura Latinoamericana; humor; infancia; escritura; Mario Levrero; Literatura Latinoamericana; humor; infância; escritura
• License: Derechos de autor 2021 La Palabra