Um pesadelo realizado: ficção e deicídio em Juan Carlos Onetti

Abstract

The research proposes to investigate deicide, a concept developed by Vargas Llosa (1971), in three narratives by Juan Carlos Onetti. The investigation of movement between the realityfiction axes is one of the objectives of this research, since in the Onetti’narratives can be noted the constant movement from one line to another. According to Saer (2000), this is the main topic discussed by Juan Carlos Onetti in his literature. It starts from the curiosity of understanding what drives people (in this case, the characters), each one, in its way, to seek the escape of the reality. More than that, it intends to broaden the notion of Deicide conceived by Vargas Llosa in 1971, and deeply conceptualized in 2008 in El viaje a la ficción, besides noting that not only is the novelist a supplanter of the place God, as we all are in potential. Thus, an extensive interview with some considerations of Ricardo Piglia, Crítica y ficción (1986) is extremely pertinent to subsidize this analysis that approaches the thought of Vargas Llosa on the subject. Also in this research, can be noted that Onetti practices deicide in a very peculiar, almost paradoxical way, when he places his demiurge and we readers in a fictitious universe – Santa María – place that becomes ruins as soon as it is created, where the inhabitants are doomed to failure, does not matter whatever they desire or dream. The weather is always rainy, but at noon, it is a law: a blazing sun is seen through the window of Díaz Grey's office.