Article Title：Distracting art:: Reading shock in Felisberto!Hernandez's Las 'Hortensias'
Abstract：
Felisberto Hernandez has long held an equivocal place in the canon of modem Latin American literature, uneasily labeled as an exponent of fantastic literature and often dismissed for his discursive and eccentric accounts of social interactions in a petit bourgeois setting. Hernandez's renowned singularity can be explained through an analysis of his art's ambivalent openness towards the intensified commercial frame and technological reproducibility shaping modem life. Read as a parody of the modem artist's alienation, Las Hortensias may be understood as Hernandez's attempt to create a viable aesthetics in a consumer culture. Through this parody, Hernandez mixes high and low culture in a way that complicates their very opposition in a modernist tradition.
Keywords: Hernandez (Felisberto); Las Hortensias; modemity; high and low culture; aesthetics; hybridity
DOI: 10.2307/20062876
Source：HISPANIA-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE TEACHING OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
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