La novela conjetural

Abstract

This work consists on the reading of the novel Sin embargo Juan vivía written by Alberto Vanasco which was published in 1947 and had the French nouveau roman as a precursor. Some genetic hypothesis are used in this reading to analyze the double and perhaps contradictory lineage of Vanasco’s play: the borgiana and the surrealist lineage. In this double impression, I would like to analyze the “objective” features of the story in order to establish proximities and distances, using the novel La modification written by Michel Butor as a contrasting work, whose structural similarity with that of its silent Argentinian precursor have been already marked by the critics.