Abstract

ARBUET OSUNA, Camila. A Bestiary for 19th Century Democracy: An Analysis of Martel’s La Bolsa. Let. hist. [online]. 2016, n.15, pp.179-197. ISSN 2448-8372.

This paper proposes tracking in Julián Martel’s 19th Century novel, La Bolsa, a system of beliefs, fears and prejudices which encompassed the notion of democracy in the time of Argentine State consolidation. With an inherited language of the European romantic and Renaissance tradition, Martel develops a sort of bestiary to define the bodies of otherness to those linked to the possibility of Democracy. We analyse in the account, the obscene connivance imposed by the Stock Market, with these new subjects reaching the public sphere, exposing the paradoxical rule of Capital: equality before merchandise that is maintained thanks to political inequality between people.

Keywords : democracy; State; Martel; crisis; anamorphism.

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