Metamorfozele spiritului şi prefacerile literei. Metamorfoză, anamorfoză şi automorfoză în Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto

Abstract

The present study is a multifaceted approach to Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto’s hybrid protagonist whose ontogenetical (r)evolution is to be viewed in terms of Fr. Nietzsche’s series of three metamorphoses of the spirit which he put forward as stages in life for self-overcoming. Thus, we turn a both philosophical and anthropological lens on a character orbiting around his own controversial past as he progresses from submissiveness to enlightening and emancipating rebellion. In addition to analyzing several of the mythical facets of the Columbian character, we will be also showing the ways in which the character reflects Betcherev’s principles of human reflexology. Moreover, it is don Gaspar’s suicide that makes it possible for us to distinguish between Gilbert Durand’s regimes of writing on the one hand, and between Jean-Jacques Wunenburger’s functions of the imaginary, on the other, both as applied to the novel at issue.