The place of poetry in the story: Guimaraes Rosa, García Márquez and Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

In our article we propose to do a comparative literature research on the relationship between poetry and short story in three great Latin American writers: Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Roberto Bolaño. Our question focuses on reflecting on the place of poetry (as a reading, as a search for meaning and as a praxis of writing) in three great contemporary narrators. For this we will focus on his first short story books, exploring through files, the germ and the creation of a style with poetic resonances that characterizes his later works in monumental novels like Gran serton vereda, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch , The wild detectives and 2666.