Abstract

CUADRA, Carlos. Prosopography and etopeia in Rosa Monteros Character Bruna Husky. Rev. filol. linguíst. Univ. Costa Rica [online]. 2022, vol.48, n.1, e48333. ISSN 2215-2628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v48i1.48333.

This article endeavors to study the literary image of Bruna Husky, the fictional character in Rosa Monteros novels, according to the theory of the artistic image developed by Georges Didi-Huberman. This critic explores the artistic image as a symptom, that is, as a conflict among latent contradictory impulses, located not only in the authors unconscious, but in society as a whole. As a character, Bruna husky shows a conflict between prosopography (visual image, physical description) and etopeia, (a characters values and actions). While Bruna Huskys prosopography shows us a masculinized woman, her etopeia reveals a woman who is still subservient to her male partner through the romantic mystique of ideal love. In this way, Bruna Husky represents an interesting but failed attempt to find a literary image of an independent woman in our time.

Keywords : feminism; science-fiction; prosopography; etopeia; Rosa Montero.

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