Un sueño monadológico de José Donoso: “La puerta cerrada”

Authors

  • Vicente Cervera Salinas

Abstract

The author suggests a reading for the short story or “nouvelle” by José Donoso, “La puerta cerrada” (“The closed door”), from a poetic-philosophical perspective. The ethos defi ning the main character, Sebastián Rengifo, is characterised around the concept of “monad” coined by G. W. Leibnitz. This impenetrable spiritual essence, his lunar dimension, his impossible communication with his social and familiar milieu bounds him with the physical-metaphysical notion of “Monadology”. This is so due to his will to look in the magma of his dreams in order to recover a universal light. The process narrated by Donoso links the plot of his narrative with the Romantic tradition of the search of the “blue flower” that always comes in dreams, that is Sebastián´s case seals his wake with that closed door determining his condition as a monad.

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Cervera Salinas, V. (2007). Un sueño monadológico de José Donoso: “La puerta cerrada”. Estudios Románicos, 17(2), 331–342. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/estudiosromanicos/article/view/94781
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El mundo filológico