NARRAR UNA GUERRA, INTERPRETAR UNA NACIÓN: EL ÚLTIMO CICLO NARRATIVO DE AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS. (Spanish)

In the 1990s Augusto Roa Bastos wrote his last narrative cycle focusing on characters and events from the Paraguayan war, representing a break in style from his previous writings, in which this bellicose conflict was always alluded to in a secondary manner in novels and short stories. We take from his last cycle two works ("Frente al frente argentino" y "Frente al frente paraguayo") belonging to a collective work entitled Los conjurados del quilombo del Gran Chaco (2001) in order to analyze the modalities in which Roa, without altering to much the principles of his poetics, participates with his fiction in a field of interpretations on the Paraguayan war, displacing the centre of interest to the borders and to an analysis of Solano López as a contradictory figure. To revisit this conflict from the 19th century at the beginning of the 21st century implies that we read the discourses that consolidated national identities from the viewpoint of current regional configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A partir de la década del noventa Augusto Roa Bastos desarrolla su último ciclo narrativo centrado en personajes y episodios de la Guerra del Paraguay, lo que representa una novedad con respecto a sus novelas y cuentos anteriores en los que el hecho bélico es aludido de manera siempre secundaria en novelas y cuentos. Tomamos como corpus dos relatos de este ciclo ('Frente al frente argentino" y "Frente al frente paraguayo") pertenecientes a la obra colectiva titulada Los conjurados del quilombo del Gran Chaco (2001) para analizar el modo en que Roa, sin alterar mayormente los principios de su poética, interviene con su ficción en el campo de las interpretaciones sobre la guerra, desplazando el centro de interés hacia el cuestionamiento de las fronteras y hacia el análisis de Solano López como una figura contradictoria. Revisitar el conflicto del siglo XIX en el comienzo del siglo XXI implica leer los discursos que consolidaron las identidades nacionales con la mirada puesta en la actual configuración regional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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