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SOURCE: Swanson, Philip. “Binary Elements in El obsceno pájaro de la noche.” Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 19, no. 1 (January 1985): 101-16.
In the following essay, Swanson examines duality as a central organizing principle of El obsceno pájaro de la noche.
A notable feature of much recent criticism on José Donoso's El obsceno pájaro de la noche is the number of references to the text's inherent duality. Isis Quinteros sees the mythical level of the novel as being organized around a series of “relaciones en oposición binaria,”1 while Adriana Valdés has commented that: “es constante la estructuración anverso/reverso en la narración.”2 Josefina A. Pujals also asserts that “toda la novela es un juego sobre dos tensiones o polaridades opuestas, de unión y desunión, de aglutinamiento y fragmentación representados por los factores imbunche y desmembramiento respectivamente.”3
However, critics have so far...
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