No. 46 (2021)
Articles

Cities of rats. An approach from René Girard to two short stories, one by Franz Kafka and one by Roberto Bolaño

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  • Jonathan Paúl Alvarez Torres
Jonathan Paúl Alvarez Torres
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá. Colombia

Published 2021-06-14

Keywords

  • Roberto Bolaño,
  • Franz Kafka,
  • René Girad ,
  • mimetic desire,
  • rats

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Alvarez Torres, J. P. . (2021). Cities of rats. An approach from René Girard to two short stories, one by Franz Kafka and one by Roberto Bolaño. Revista Sarance, 46, 156-172. https://doi.org/10.51306/ioasarance.046.07

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Abstract

René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire allows for an analysis of the founding myth and sacred violence within cultural productions. In this article, we have chosen to probe Girardian aspects within two short stories, one by Kafka and the other by Bolaño. These stories have the particularity that one is a hypotext of the other. In this sense, we will approach this regarding the use of rats as characters in cultural productions. We will talk about Girardian tools. In the last section we will try to bring together the Kafkaesque aspects of Bolaño’s story and the Girardian aspects of both stories.

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