Richardson, Regina Whelan
(1976)
Loneliness, Creation and Communication in Carlos Rojas.
Masters thesis, University College Dublin.
Abstract
Carlos Rojas is the creator of highly imaginative, intricately
wrought and richly written novels. Their thematic structure could
include a range of subjects from dream and reality to history and
religion, and be woven with a personalised style whichx is
unmistakeable. But the themes underlying most of his work are those
elemental problems of man: loneliness and alienation, selfexamination,
communication and creation. It is through an examination
of these themes as explored by Rojas in his fiction and other
writings, that the source of his artistic inspiration and style may
be discovered. I intend in the following three chapters to reveal
how a sense of loneliness and alienation contributes greatly to his
creative urge, and how this feeling of aloneness, together with the
allied themes of self-examination and communication, has a basic
influence on the wayin which he writes. The two novels I will refer
to mainly are La ternura del hombre invisible and Adolfo Hitler esta
en mi casa.
In the first chapter I will discuss the question of character
identification and communication. Within these novels, the
characters come to realise that communication with others must be
preceeded by ..confrontation with the self. Rojas is as convinced of
this truth as his characters. For in this way communication can be
seen as a creative force; for man in his relations with himself
and other men, for the writer with his public.
The concept of creative force will be dealt with in more detail
in Chapter Two. Here, through structural and stylistic analysis
of the symbolic pattern of fertility, I hope to show that fertility
symbols and images are carefully and consistently used to
consolodate the hope in creation as the solution to a lonely and
barren existence. They are, in effect, an essential part of the
structure of the novels.
In Chapter Three I propose to examine his non-fiction in the
light of his fictional writings, and to relate the meaning of life
with the means of living. For Rojas, communication is an important
meaning of life in a world where man lives with himself and with
other people. In his non-fiction, he relates the problems of
communication which he explores in his novels, to the means of
living, which is the manner in which man lives out his life. He
emphasises the necessity of an understanding communication as a
prerequisite to the harmonious co-existence of mankind. He
discusses this not only in the universal brotherhood of man
context, but with particular reference to isolationist states of
mind in communities of his native country.
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