Charon’s Boat. Images, Editorial Strategies and Appropriation in Los graduados de Kafka

Authors

  • Alexandra Saavedra Galindo Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.28.2018.3

Keywords:

Artisan publishers, Intertextuality, Kafka / Munch, Appropriation, Cuban literature

Abstract

The characteristics of the publishing and literary designs that Ediciones Vigía has been developing since 1985 are studied in this paper. Reflection focuses on the analysis of the work Los graduados de Kafka (2008), by Cuban author Jorge Ángel Hernández Pérez. The craftsmanship and artistic elements that bring about a dramatic intensity to the content of the book are analysed and explained. Parallel aspects such as appropriation, the way in which the artist’s books demand a different relationship of their readers, the distribution and elaboration of artisan books, in Cuba and beyond, and the particular role that, in this case, has the intervention of the editor and the designers are taken into account. The paper pays attention as well to the cross references of the term «Kafkaesque», and to the intertextual elements and the world in which the stories that make up the work of Hernández Pérez take place.

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How to Cite

Saavedra Galindo, A. (2018). Charon’s Boat. Images, Editorial Strategies and Appropriation in Los graduados de Kafka. Cuadernos De Literatura Del Caribe E Hispanoamérica, (28), 35–54. https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.28.2018.3

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Published

2018-12-18