Jacob y el otro: una lectura desde el deseo mimético
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i2.3592Keywords:
Juan Carlos Onetti, "Jacob Y El Otro", Desire Mimetic Theory, René Girard, Sport And LiteratureAbstract
The article analyses “Jacob y el otro”, short story by Juan Carlos Onetti according to anthropological tehories of René Girard. Onetti’s universe brims with different aspects of mimetic desire: This means that the relationship between the subject and the object is not direct: there is always a triangular relationship of subject, model, and object. Through the object, one is drawn to the model, whom Girard calls the mediator: it is in fact the model who is sought. My intention is only to comment some aspects of this theory in relation with the main triangle of desire in this story, which it is composed by Jacob, his manager Orsini and his pathetic objective of feeling himself the best wrestler in the World.Downloads
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