Abstract

ALCAZAR, Jorge. Narrative Intertextuality: How Pacheco Appropriates The Go-Between. Acta poét [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.1, pp.99-118. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2016.1.667.

This essay explores the role of the writing in postmodern fiction, whether it goes under such names as appropriation, adaptation or the interaction between a hypotext and a hypertext. The core of the article is concerned with a minute comparison between H. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between (1953) and José Emilio Pacheco's Las batallas en el desierto (1981). Similarities such as the role of a child/adult narrator, his infatuation with a mature woman, the traumatic experience it entails, how a distant past is recreated, the clash of opposite social classes, the narrative thematics of music, as well as other minor details are brought to the fore.

Keywords : The Go-Between; Las batallas en el desierto; narrative intertextuality; postmodern rewriting; appropriation.

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