The hidden reader in The Vortex
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The textual exuberance and the varied games that José Eustasio Rivera uses to construct La vorágine represent a fertile space, like the jungle itself, for the interaction (and cooperation) between the work and its readers, which is evident in the number of texts and interpretations that it has generated over these hundred years of publication. Precisely, this article is in charge of analyzing the novel as a dynamic mechanism that unfolds and duplicates the roles of some characters in terms of their function as writer (sender) and reader (receiver). We could say that, in the manifest surface of the text, we recognize the double role games in José Eustasio Rivera as a real referent (writer) and also as a fictional character (reader and editor of the manuscripts), in Arturo Cova as a character (actor) and writer (sender) of the manuscripts and Ramiro Estévanez as a character and supposed model reader of
Cova's memoirs. However, the novel presents some clues that allow us to conclude that Clemente Silva would be a third reader who splits into two in The Vortex, a kind of hidden reader who, like Aureliano Babilonia, finds in the manuscripts an unrevealed truth.
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