In search of the flashes of the Gutierrian firefies: play, dance and laughter in the narrative jumps of Animal Tropical
Gutiérrez. Literary game. Dance. Laughter. Cuba.
In this work, three vectors of analysis are established for the study of the novel Animal tropical (2000), by the Cuban Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Thus, the concepts of literary game, dance and philosophy of la risa emerge as a category of analysis, contextually applied to the narrative of the third Gutierrean novel. In this guideline, the direction of the literary game is pondered through a comparative view with the literature of Julio Cortázar, in Rayuela (1988), a comparison from which the concept of Gutierrian symbolic mathematics arises. As a second analytical direction, the definition of Gutierrian dance is established, which is a reading strategy that symbolizes the discussions about the political and social in the narrative of the Cuban writer. Lastly, through the concept of philosophy of laughter, coined in El nido de la serpiente, memorias del hijo del heladero (2006), an argumentative sequence is carried out on the manifestations of laughter, under the logic of Nietzschean perspectivism in Animal tropical.