Abstract

HERRERA DIAZ, Gustavo. Eros and Memory in La noche del Aguafiestas, by Antón Arrufat. UH [online]. 2016, n.282, pp. 129-137. ISSN 0253-9276.

Some scholars like Rafael Rojas or Suremis Pavón have considered La noche del Aguafiestas by Antón Arrufat to be a Platonic novel symbolically and literarily connected with The Symposium. This paper adds The Phaedrus to this connection, Plato's famous dialogue dealing with the issue of memory or reminiscence and its relation to Beauty and Eros. It tries to validate this intertextual connection that has gone unnoticed by critics, and it examines how this text has a symbolical effect on the characterization of characters, and on one of the most recurrent themes of the novel, namely the importance of memory and its active part in the erotic relation to the other.

Keywords : eros; identity; memory; Cuban novel,; platonism; reminiscence.

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