Courtly love and the dialectic of loneliness in Morel's Invention

Authors

  • Amparo Reyes Velázquez Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo

Keywords:

Novel, Fiction, Love, Solitude, Myth

Abstract

Adolfo Bioy Casares in his novel, The Invention of Morel, highlights, through courtly love, the history of human sensitivity, as well as the drama of loneliness, that nostalgia for space that also involves love.  Both feelings are interwoven in an existential symbiosis. And we only ask love for a moment of full life, of true death....

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Published

2023-12-15

How to Cite

Reyes Velázquez, A. (2023). Courtly love and the dialectic of loneliness in Morel’s Invention. Argos Journal, 11(27), 3–15. Retrieved from https://revistaargos.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/argos/article/view/26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 27 (2024): January-June

Section

Literary discussion

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