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      Metáfora, alegoría y nostalgia: La casa en las novelas de Alejandro Zambra Translated title: Metaphor, allegory and nostalgia: The house in the novels written by Alejandro Zambra

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          El título de la tercera novela de Alejandro Zambra, Formas de volver a casa, señala que la casa ocupa el centro espacial de la narración. Este artículo examina primero la imagen de la casa evocada en las tres novelas de Zambra como una metáfora de la literatura y después como el punto centrípeto en una serie de representaciones de la experiencia postdictatorial. La primera parte de esta contribución se basa en las teorías de Heidegger y de Deleuze y Guattari sobre el habitar. A continuación mostraremos que la nostalgia reflexiva descrita por Boym nos permite leer los movimientos narrativos que giran alrededor de la casa en las novelas de Zambra como alegorías de la experiencia postdictatorial. Con tal motivo se propone asimismo situar la producción de Zambra frente a los conceptos de alegoría forjados por Avelar y por De Man.

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          The title of the third novel by Alejandro Zambra, Formas de volver a casa, presents the house as the centre of the narration. This article examines first the house, as it is described in Zambra's novels, as a metaphor for literature, and then as the centripetal point of a series of representations of postdictatorial experience. The first part of the article is based on the theories of Heidegger and Deleuze and Guattari about living. In the second part, the concept of reflexive nostalgia, developed by Boym, permits us to consider the narrative movements around Zambra's house as "allegories" of postdictatorial experience. Therefore, the article aims at determining the position of Zambra's literary production in light of the concepts of allegory forged by Avelar and De Man.

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              Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
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                Journal
                actalit
                Acta literaria
                Acta lit.
                Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte. Departamento de Español (Concepción, , Chile )
                0717-6848
                2012
                : 45
                : 25-42
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                [01] Gent orgnameUniversiteit Gent Bélgica bieke.willem@ 123456ugent.be
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                S0717-68482012000200003 S0717-6848(12)00004500003
                183ad94d-8b84-4d5b-a1ac-682d7ec4f3f7

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 13 March 2012
                : 10 September 2012
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                postdictadura,metáfora y alegoría,Dwelling,nostalgia reflexiva,Habitar,metaphor and allegory,post-dictatorship,reflexive nostalgia

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