Horror epidemic: Cruelty and “inhumanity" in "The Intercessor” of "The invisible spheres" by Diego Muzzio

Authors

  • Cristina Andrea Featherston Haugh Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Horror, uncanny, political violence, psychic violence, gothic

Abstract

Horror looks like a constitutive element in DiegoMuzzio’s narrative. Uncanny interweaves in Las esferas invisibles’s nouvelles with a stressed society, devastated by 1871 plague and the Paraguayan War. Our presentation proposes itself as a quest of Muzzio’s narrative strategies in order to representhorror which originates from the confrontation of human beings with unknown and irrationality, with daily death fear. We will investigate the rhetorical instruments through which the author settles close relationship between physical horror and psychic one. The first come, generally, from a political and social context wherethe characters and the facts take place: second ones are related with death seen as spectacle. To this complex representation of horror, it must be added, as a discourse strategy, many intertextualities which many times deal with horror. Our approach will put focus on “El intercesor”.

Author Biography

Cristina Andrea Featherston Haugh, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Profesora y doctora en Letras e investigadora de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). Profesora Titular de Problemáticas de Literatura Inglesa y profesora adjunta ordinaria de Literatura Inglesa y de Literatura Argentina «A» en la UNLP. Correo electrónico: cfeatherstonhaugh@yahoo.com

Published

2024-07-04

How to Cite

Featherston Haugh, C. A. (2024). Horror epidemic: Cruelty and “inhumanity" in "The Intercessor” of "The invisible spheres" by Diego Muzzio. Gramma , 34(71). Retrieved from https://p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/gramma/article/view/6991

Issue

Section

Dossier: "Land and Terror: The Horrors of Argentine Literature"