AGONIZING AWAKENING AND DESPAIR IN THE FACE OF DEATH: TRACES OF POE IN “DESTINO” BY ALBERTO GARCÍA HAMILTON

Authors

  • ANA MARÍA RISCO

Keywords:

Alberto García Hamilton, Comparative literature, Premature burial, Edgar Allan Poe, Argentina´s literature

Abstract

This paper examines the tale “Destino” by the Uruguayan journalist Alberto García Hamilton, published in 1898 in the feuilleton section of the newspaper El Orden, in Tucumán (Argentina), and its connection with tales that revolve around death and the figure of the “living dead.” These tales are his principal source of inspiration. «Destino» is part of a literary tradition that supports the problematic of the catalepsy as a disease or as a persistent supernatural phenomenon in the literature and in the cinema of 20th century. To begin the analysis of this tale, we consider the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s works in Argentina´s literary system at the end of the 19th century.

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Published

2015-07-31

How to Cite

RISCO, A. M. (2015). AGONIZING AWAKENING AND DESPAIR IN THE FACE OF DEATH: TRACES OF POE IN “DESTINO” BY ALBERTO GARCÍA HAMILTON. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (13), 171–186. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/14124

Issue

No. 13 (2015): Chinese Imaginary in Other Literatures: Inspiration, Appropriation and Intertextuality

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Miscellaneous

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