El cartelito más triste del mundo en Cien años de soledad: introspección y el son doliente de otra canción deseperada

Abstract

The essay updates and rescues the most ill-treated character of Cien años de soledad: Fernanda del Carpio. A close glance to her circumstance adorns her with advantageous colors in view of the dislike generated by her behavior: She becomes echo of multiple voices and a bajtinian reading deepens in her dialogic nature. Her ill and "docile" body becomes metaphor of her intense sadness, and her difficult circumstance concludes in a freudinian "song of despair"; as Cervante's? Pablo Neruda's? Or "Otra canción desesperada" by Luis Rafael Sánchez? The introspection of her famous "cantaleta" renders interior complexity to the character; in opposition to the critic's general vision that Garcia Marquez' masterpiece is inhabited by shallow characters, archetypes and mythic actants. Her monologue unveils an active conscience and claims for an individual analysis.