THE INFLUENCE of WILLIAM FAULKNER in FOUR LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS (Yaftez, GARCIA MARQUEZ, CEPEDA SAMUDIO, DONOSO)
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1978 The nflueI nce of William Faulkner in Four Latin American Novelists (Yanez, Garcia Marquez, Cepeda Samudio, Donoso). Joan Loyd Hernandez Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Hernandez, Joan Loyd, "The nflueI nce of William Faulkner in Four Latin American Novelists (Yanez, Garcia Marquez, Cepeda Samudio, Donoso)." (1978). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 3285. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/3285 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This was produced from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technological means to photograph and reproduce this document have been used, the quality is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. The following explanation of techniques is provided to help you understand markings or notations which may appear on this reproduction. 1. The sign or “target” for pages apparently lacking from the document photographed is “Missing Page(s)”. If it was possible to obtain the missing page(s) or section, they are spliced into the film along with adjacent pages. This may have necessitated cutting through an image and duplicating adjacent pages to assure you of complete continuity. 2. When an image on the film is obliterated with a round black mark it is an indication that the film inspector noticed either blurred copy because of movement during exposure, or duplicate copy. Unless we meant to delete copyrighted materials that should not have been filmed, you will find a good image of the page in the adjacent frame. 3. When a map, drawing or chart, etc., is part of the material being photo graphed the photographer has followed a definite method in “sectioning” the material. It is customary to begin filming at the upper left hand corner of a large sheet and to continue from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. If necessary, sectioning is continued again—beginning below the first row and continuing on until complete. 4. For any illustrations that cannot be reproduced satisfactorily by xerography, photographic prints can be purchased at additional cost and tipped into your xerographic copy. Requests can be made to our Dissertations Customer Services Department. 5. Some pages in any document may have indistinct print. In all cases we have filmed the best available copy. University Microfilms International 300 N. ZEEB ROAD, ANN ARBOR, Ml 48106 18 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON WC1 R 4EJ, ENGLAND 791i573 HERNANDEZ, JOAN LOYD THE INFLUENCE DF WILLIAM FAULKNER IN I; OUR LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS ( YANEZ, GARCIA MARQUEZ, CEPEDA SAMUDIO, DONOSO) . THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL CUL* , PH .D ., 1978 University Microfilms International 300 n . z e e b r o a d, a n n a r b o r, mi 48106 © 1979 JOAN LOYD HERNANDEZ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a check mark 1. Glossy photographs^ / 2„ Colored illustrationsI' 3. Photographs with dark background ______ 4. Illustrations are poor copy________ 5. Print shows through as there is text on both sides of_______ page 6. Indistinct, broken or small print on several _________pages throughout 7. Tightly bound copy with print lost in spine _________ 8. Computer printout pages with indistinct________ print 9. Page(s) lacking when material received, and not available from school or author________ 10. Page(s)________ seem to be missing in numbering only as text follows________ 11. Poor carbon copy________ 12. Not original copy, several pages with blurred type ______ 13. Appendix pages are poor________ copy 14. Original copy with light ________type 15. Curling and wrinkled pages________ 16. Other ____________ __________________ University Microfilms International 300 N. ZEEB RD., ANN ARBOR, Ml 48106 1313) 761-4700 THE INFLUENCE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER IN FOUR LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS (YANEZ, GARCIA MARQUEZ, CEPEDA SAMUDIO, DONOSO) A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Foreign Languages by Joan Loyd Hernandez B.A. , Louisiana State University, 1948 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1949 December, 197 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There can never be enough words to express my apprecia tion to my directing professor, Dr. Alfredo Lozada, and to Mrs. Lozada, for the patience and courtesies over the long years it has taken to complete this study. I also wish to express my appreciation to the members of the faculty at LSU and to the members of the committee for their suggestions and assistance. The friends and relatives of the authors studied have given graciously of their time and their knowledge. I am appreciative of the generous use of the materials in the spe cial collections at the University of Iowa (Iowa City), the University of Oxford (Oxford, Mississippi), and the Univer sity of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia), as well as the special demands made upon the librarians and the members of the staff at LSUBR and at LSUEunice. And especially without the help of Mrs. Margaret Beste, Dr. Carmen del Rio and Mrs. Bebe Alston, this dissertation would never have materialized. The wonderful help and encouragement from my family, especially my children, and from close friends and neighbors who have suffered through many cups of coffee and long hours on the road with me, will ever be remembered. And, humbly, I wish to express my gratitude to the Good Lord, who, in his infinite wisdom, has provided so ii abundantly for His impatient servant, yet did not throw into her lap. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .............................................. ii ABSTRACT ..................................................... v Chapter I. THE NOVEL AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF INVOLVEMENT . 1 II. AGUSTlN y An EZ (1904- ) 30 III. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (1928- ) 69 IV. ALVARO CEPEDA SAMUDIO (1926-1972) 112 V. JOSE DONOSO YANEZ (1925- ) .................... 146 VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ...................... 17 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................ 18 3 APPENDICES A. Faulkner's Works ........................207 B. Characteristics of Faulkner Style ................ 220 C. Interview with Dr. Juan Pablo Llinas Concerning Cepeda Samudio ........................ 2 24 D. Photographs..............................242 E. Historical and Population D a t a ..................255 VITA .......................................................... 27 5 iv ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the Southern writer, William Faulkner, in the works of se lected writers of Latin America: Agustin Yanez, Jose Donoso, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is a continuation of earlier work of Dr. James East Irby, "La Influencia de William Faulkner en Cuatro Narradores Hispano- americanos," published in 1956. v CHAPTER I THE NOVEL AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF INVOLVEMENT For the literary scholar whose field of interest is in the novel, the richness and diversity of the Latin Ameri can novel is particularly appealing. Because of the many differences in culture, geography, ethnic backgrounds, po litical systems, etc., Latin America offers a continuous flow of ideas, beliefs, philosophies and concepts in its fiction. The novel has been one of the mediums through which that flow has been most effectively transmitted. Kessel Schwartz has been one of the critics to call attention to the fact that "from about 19 35 on one may speak of a new novel.He states that whereas the older themes involving social problems, regionalism, political corrup tion, etc., continue to exist, it is the works which deal with the "mythological, allegorical, introspective, surreal istic, and existentialist aspects of life, employing . techniques such as interior monologue . dream sequences , 2 flashbacks, objectivism, . ." which began to cause excite ment in the 1950's and 1960's. ■^Kessel Schwartz, A New History of Spanish American Fiction (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1971), II, 95. ^Ibid., p . 96. 1 2 Gomez-Gil has been another historian to call atten tion to the fact that the political, economic and social changes of the twentieth century have resulted in a mental, moral, and cultural crisis for "man" himself. And that this crisis has caused "man" to search within himself for the universalities of life's meaning and his own existence. To achieve these new objectives he has had to introduce new techniques, some of which are reflected in new methods of fiction. These new methods of fiction have been found in the works of James Joyce, interior monologue; Aldous Huxley, 3 counterpoint; Franz Kafka, intricately woven plots; etc. In the examination of the works of other literary his torians, this writer came upon mention of, at times, Vir- 4 . ginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner.^