The Sirens of Titan : el universo post-modernista de Kurt Vonnegut

Authors
Lerate de Castro, Jesús
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4901
Publisher
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones
Date
1994
Bibliographic citation
REDEN : revista española de estudios norteamericanos, 1994, n. 8, p. [61]-79. ISSN 1131-9674
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Abstract
A close reading of The Sirens of Titan reveals that this early novel by Kurt Vonnegut, far from being a mere science fiction tale ¿as it has often been labelled¿ is a first-rate literary work in which the author displays a great variety of metafictional devices. The metaphysical quest for meaning in life is paralleled by a tortous, roundabout physical journey where the ordered, controlled and harmonius universe¿ textually made coherent by its galactical structure and mythical allusions¿ is challenged dialogically by a world of chaos which is sown with the absurd, with unexpected lexical yuxtaposition, indeterminations and de-mythoiogizing parodies. This paper aims to explore this post-modernist natura of the novel.
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