Especies raras en <i>La guaracha del Macho Camacho</i> : Bassani, Borges y Bosch en el jardín de Graciela

Abstract

In order to describe Graciela's garden in Macho Camacho's Beat and to denounce the somewhat illicit activities that take place in it, Luis Rafael Sánchez makes use of an accumulation of allusions. This very well calculated threefold narrative detour invites us to step away from the novel in order to explore three "texts" with which it is supposedlyclosely related. Far from keeping us dwelling in an endless intertextual labyrinth, or from forcing us into a dead end, these three "stories within the story" suggest a way back to Macho Camacho's Beat. As we follow this path, they reveal unexpected elements about the novel and in particular about its dramatic ending.