Doña Bárbara y lo político. Doña Bárbara and the political
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Abstract
En este artículo se propone una interpretación de la novela Doña Bárbara (1929) de Rómulo Gallegos a partir de la dialéctica entre la totalidad y el exceso que ella pone en juego. Su discurso novelesco plantea la creación de un orden social armónico y bien compensado, sin embargo, este orden sólo se consigue al precio de excluir aquello que lo está suplementando. El hallazgo es que el conflicto político entre el consenso deseado y aquello que lo excede, pero que ayuda a fundarlo, se aprecia en la concepción estética y lingüística de esta novela.
Abstract: This article offers an interpretation of Rómulo Gallegos’ Doña Bárbara (1929) based in the dialectics between totality and excess displayed in it. The novel proposes the foundation of a harmonic and well balanced social order. Nevertheless, this order is achieved only at the cost of excluding the one thing that supplements it. The conclusion is that the political conflict between the desired consensus and that that exceeds it, but provides it with proper grounding, is found in the linguistic as well as the aesthetic conception of the novel.
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