EL NARRADOR JUDEOARGENTINO EN LOS RELATOS DE LA LEVITA GRIS

Abstract

In 1924 the writer Samuel Glusberg published La levita gris. Cuentos judíos de ambiente porteño, becoming one of the initiators of the Jewish-Argentine literature on urban themes. In this book, it could be read stories about the integration of Jewish characters in the new set of Buenos Aires, about theirs conflicts with the «criollos» and within the same ethno-cultural community, and about the desire of young people to establish a new belonging. The purpose of this paper is to describe the point of view from which the narrators tell these stories and to focus on the fictional construction of their place of enunciation as a «space in between» and on textual operations that constitute the narrative in a place of negotiation between different linguistic-cultural perspectives. To this end, we will analyze several discursive resources that make the narrator a cultural mediator, such as code-switching, selective use of ethnic markers, and displacement of viewpoint between Jewish characters and «criollos» characters.