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CORRALES MILLAN, Elizabeth. Macedonio Fernández and Witold Gombrowicz: the non-existing novelists. Káñina [online]. 2016, vol.40, n.2, pp.34-45. ISSN 2215-2636.

In general, literary historiography has related Macedonio Fernandez's The Museum of Eterna's Novel and Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke spatially (as part of Argentina's production, even in the case of the Polish Gombrowicz) and temporally (their production periods are more or less coincident). However, one of its most important and least studied linking features is its insertion in the general setting of the avant-garde aesthetics during the first half of the twentieth century. In this sense, although The Museum is considered as a representative text of the Hispanic American avant-garde novel, Ferdydurke is not considered as part of this classification. From the above it follows my purpose in this paper: emphasize that The Museum and the Spanish translation of Ferdydurke-made by Gombrowicz himself during his exile in Argentina -share pitted traits against the prevailing novelistic canon, including the Hispanic American avant-garde movements, as well as antiformal, subversive and radical poetic projects that bring together both works in an exclusive convergence with diverse avant-garde artistic expression, in an exchange that transcends any national level.

Palabras clave : Hispanic American avant-garde novel; metafiction; historic avant-garde; canon; abstract art..

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