Sobre las variantes textuales de Las fuerzas extrañas y la intertextualidad de “Un fenómeno inexplicable

Authors

Jose M. Martinez
Jonathan Godinez
Itzel Vargas, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

This essay comments on the relegated importance of the textual variations of several short stories from Las fuerzas extrañas, by Leopoldo Lugones. It also reproduces the original versions of those stories to collate them with the ones in the final version of the book. The conclusion is reached that those variations are of a quantitative and qualitative importance greater than what is ordinarily assumed, and that they illuminate both the preparation of the book and its ultimate meaning. Finally, we also suggest that “Un fenómeno inexplicable” may have had its origin in a picture of Thomas Henry Huxley, the reputed English scientist, and that, consequently, the story and the book may need to be read according to the spiritualistic and theosophical beliefs of Lugones.

Comments

Original published version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/alhi.66780

Recommended Citation

Martínez, J. M., Godínez, J., & Vargas, I. (2019). Sobre las variantes textuales de Las fuerzas extrañas y la intertextualidad de ‘Un fenómeno inexplicable’. Anales De Literatura Hispanoamericana, 48, 143-203. https://doi.org/10.5209/alhi.66780

First Page

143

Last Page

203

Publication Title

Anales De Literatura Hispanoamericana

DOI

10.5209/alhi.66780