The look in El amante del teatro and the device of intertextuality.

Abstract

The object of study of the story "The lover of the theater" is to address the fantastic genre in the
narrative corpus. Tzvetan Todorov's studies on the fantasy genre, Introduction to Fantasy Literature,
provide the theoretical framework for this research. However, in a pertinent dose, the contributions
of other literary critics and philosophers, under the scientific rigor that defines them, are essential for
the development of this work. And, in this story, which glimpses nooks and crannies of other planes
of narrative fiction, it is necessary to sketch a wink of the intertextual universe that underlies.
In the fictional space of "The Theater Lover", the dialectic of the gaze is a key piece of the
story. But, in addition, a nodal ingredient that serves to elucidate the phantasmagorical world of the
story, is the cornflower flower, the scenic flower. Thus, the cornflower flower, under the fantastic
lunge, configures the archetypal image of the soul that sheaths not only the metaphor of time, of
beauty, but also of love as the center of the universe.
For the rest, "The Lover of the Theater" is the ghostly story that erases the boundaries
between reality and fantasy, where literature creates a reality different from ours, extraordinarily
better, enough, unimaginable ... as Mario Vargas Llosa has pointed out.