“The Witness” by Juan José Saer. Myth, Islands and Boundaries Cover Image

“El entenado” de Juan José Saer, mito, islas y límites
“The Witness” by Juan José Saer. Myth, Islands and Boundaries

Author(s): María Elena Blay Chávez
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Island; tribe; language; identity; memory; otherness

Summary/Abstract: A cabin boy arrives with his crew to the territory of the Rio de la Plata. Saer was inspired by the story of Francisco del Puerto, a ship’s boy who travelled with the expedition of Juan Diaz de Solís that allegedly ended up eaten by a cannibalistic tribe of one of the islands of Parana’s delta. The hero is bound to learn from the new territory two times; but it is the search for identity, the narration to preserve memory, the construction of the general history, and the limits of one’s self that this article deals with.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 228-235
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Spanish