This external influence is an invasive force inside the narration, something extraordinary that coerces characters and causes a disturbing feeling not only in them but also in the reader. Otherness, understood as a person, an animal, a presence or as an entity is an external force in Cortazar's narrative which influence and force to change the character's life and thoughts, in other words, the plot of the story. Many kinds of otherness are presented in these tales and animals are usually a reflection of the human consciousness.
In Bestiario the most important invader is not animorphic presence, in spite of the title of the book. This entity might be not only a person, but an animal or an abstract presence.
This means a lack of freedom, since they suffer the consequences of living in a reality invaded by another entity. This papers offers a new vision of the otherness in Bestiario, interpreted as an invasive presence that interferes in each character's life guidelines in different ways, and may break them. The writer based the house on one located in the city of Chivilcoy in the Province of Buenos Aires, which can still be found in the streets Suipacha and Necochea.Ponencia leída el 4/05/12 en la 32nd Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism, among others.Īmong the resources that are frequent in Cortázar's story, graphic signs (such as parenthesis) are used to reflect censorship.
It starts in a realist manner and it slowly introduces a scene in which natural laws are distorted. It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. It was originally published in Los anales de Buenos Aires, a literary magazine edited by Jorge Luis Borges, and later included in his volume of stories Bestiario. " Casa Tomada" ( English: " House Taken Over") is a 1946 short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
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