POLIFONÍA Y CONSTRUCCIONES IDENTITARIAS EN LA HOJARASCA DE GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Abstract

The present study focuses on the polyphonic character of Gabriel García Márquez's La Hojarasca, which is constituted as a vital procedure that goes through the entire novel.

The main problem addressed by this study is what function the multiplicity of voices has. As long as the narrators succeed one another, they also practice the answer to two big questions: Who are the others? Who are we? It is worth asking, then, what connection exists between these movements that intersperse the voices of the narrators and their representations of others and of themselves?

One possible answer suggests that these identity constructions, far from remaining stagnant, are fluent and challenged by social, family and love bonds, in an analogous manner to the polyphonic construction of the novel.