TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephanie Merrim
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Logos and the Word
T2  - The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres tristes tigres
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1073441
N2  - Readers and critics alike have found the dense - Joyce-like - verbal inventions of these two experimental Latin American novels gratuitous and incomprehensible. This study, however, by articulating the «grammar» of the neologisms, relating them to the thematic, stylistic, and semiotic elements of the text, and exposing their linguistically motivated nature, reveals the textual languages not as a descent into Babel but as attempts to storm a linguistic Eden. The study sets up a comparative framework for both works through a new, formal definition of the Latin American novel of language. The ensuing discussion establishes that whereas the Brazilian author shapes language into a more transparent and «natural» copy of (his vision of) the world, Cabrera Infante invents a pure, non-referential «anti-language» as secret as the Havana nightworld of Tres tristes tigres.
LA  - English
ER  -