Stories of the march on foot: the aesthetics of tedium in the narrative of Victoria de Stefano
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Victoria De Stefano, novel, tedium, melancholy, aestheticsAbstract
Victoria De Stefano has been considered by her peers as one of the most important writers in Venezuela. Her profound sensitivity to the existential becoming, translated into a writing that is not exempt of poeticism, makes her an unavoidable reference when it comes to establishing a canon of the contemporary Spanish-speaking novel. This dissertation aims to approach the relationship between the author's writing and tedium from the ideas put forward by philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben, Lars Svendsen, Elizabeth Goodstein, among others. To do so, some concepts will be explained in relation to the family of acedia, melancholy and boredom in relation to the literary "metapoiesis". To then establish the correspondences with the most emblematic texts of the writer, emphasizing her novel Historia de una marcha a pie and, finally, sketch her aesthetics
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