Language and euphony, background axes in "Los pasos perdidos" by Alejo Carpentier

Authors

  • Isabel Abellán Chuecos Universidad de Murcia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2023397351

Keywords:

Alejo Carpentier; Language; Idiom; Literature and music; Literature and art.

Abstract

Alejo Carpentier was an author musicologist. This issue encourages concern for language in the creation of his Works, endowing his novels and other writings with that baroque style so characteristic of his style, seeking euphony and maximum expresión. It is not only a stylistic question but also related to a philological concern. In addition, in relation to his studies mentioned above, we fin dan aspecto linked to language that is not always shown by writers: the concern with acoustics. Carpentier could not ignore the auditory issue, which will also be observed in the endowment to his novels of an entire sound universe in which language will be included. We can observe the euphony and care for language at the same times as language as music. In this way, we can access the study of language itself and how it interacts and confers various characters on the work.

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Published

2023-01-26

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How to Cite

Abellán Chuecos, I. (2023). Language and euphony, background axes in "Los pasos perdidos" by Alejo Carpentier. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 39, 95-105. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2023397351
Received 2022-10-08
Accepted 2022-10-18
Published 2023-01-26