Journal article
Myopia and dazzlement: visions of Venice in Sergio Pitol
- Abstract:
- This article explores the various meanings constructed around the idea of defective sight in Sergio Pitol’s Venetian narrative in El arte de la fuga (1996). I argue that through his playful engagement with the many connotations of vision and the place of Venice in the cultural imagination of the West, Pitol puts forward a multi-layered meditation on literature and writing, which are among his main preoccupations in El arte de la fuga and throughout his oeuvre. I also explore the notion of chiaroscuro in a figurative sense as a central feature of Pitol’s poetics. To a lesser extent the article also brings to the discussion other texts by Pitol, namely ‘El relato veneciano de Billie Upward’ (1981) and El viaje (2000).
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14753820.2018.1483645
Authors
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Bulletin of Spanish Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 95
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 325-350
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-06
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1478-3428
- ISSN:
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1475-3820
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2017-10-12
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- Bulletin of Spanish Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 Bulletin of Spanish Studies. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: ttps://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2018.1483645
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