EL ESCENARIO EN LA NOVELA "HIJO DE HOMBRE"

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  • Domingo Antonio Hernández Jiménez

Abstract

The novel “Hijo de hombre” by Augusto Roa Bastos is organized in opposite and complementary dualities affecting all the aspects, both formal and content ones, of narration. The same binary structure is found in the settings in which the action takes place. This work aims at the analysis and description of the spatial setting in the novel by Roa Bastos, as well as the itemization of the functions that the settings perform functions that are distributed in three main ones: determination of actions and characters, protagonist and symbolic character of some elements of nature going beyond the limits of their own essence (…)

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