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País Portátil: Tiempo y Espacio

2012, Revista De Investigaciones Literarias

Abstract

In the novel Pais portátil of the Venezuelan Adriano González León, the coordinates time-space in the relations signs-meanings, signsusers, show more differences than similarities in lifestyle, period, context and characters. Time and space left their mark everywhere. The PAÍS PORTÁTIL: TIEMPO Y ESPACIO Miriam Ramírez characters, especially the female ones of Trujillo enjoy and suffer behind closed doors. They just go through the boundaries of the manor; the women from Caracas are political activists, no one knows where they live, where they come from, who their family is. The male characters participate in various expressions of violence. The space of Caracas is converted into "no place", while that of Trujillo is the place to live, to coexist and to share ... The space determines the speech uses of people from Caracas, compared to archaic forms, treatment very respectful of people fromTrujillo. Tone, inflection, rhythm, vocabulary and syntax show linguistic varieties.