Abstract
The decade of the seventies links four writers of great significance in the American continent - Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos and René Depestre - under a common plot: the Latin American dictator. This essay analyzes several valuable elements of the little-known novel, El palo ensebado, by Depestre, as an ideological novel. The public square, a space of carnival festivities, gravitates as the organizing center for the events of the novel, the chronotope configurator of the narrative and polyphonic nucleus where the various voices that dismantle the official discourse converge. The elements of satire, polyphony, chronotope from Mikail Bakhtin, besides those of power and religiosity are discussed in order to deconstruct the metaphor of the author's greasy stick as if it were a slippery vertical machine that, through carnival and absurdity, becomes the horizontality of an invincible collective being.
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