El presentimiento de desastre en Corazon Tan Blanco de Xavier Marias
The feeling of disaster in Javier Marias Corazon Tan Blanco

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the novel Corazon tan Blanco (A Heart so White) of Xavier Marias, published in 1992, which soon became a planetary success, being translated into 28 languages. We stress upon the discursive narrative, the language as the genuine protagonist of this novel and the tragic intertext or recontextualization of a meaningful fragment of the Shakespearian Macbeth, which serves the purpose to explain the ambiguity of the term "blanco" in the title and corpus of the novel. At the same time , we dedicate special attention to the innner motivations and obsessions of the narrator, Juan, who feels a sense of guilt just because he was born as a result of two violent deaths and who begins to question his sense of consciousness as he experiences presentiments of disaster that he needs to clarify, investigating, the past of his own family. We finally draw the conclusion that the guilt of being aware is preferasble to a life centered on falsification, obedience and mediocrity.

• Details
• Contents