“YO HE VISTO UN PÁJARO VERDE”: EXPERIENCIA, MEMORIA Y AUTOFICCIÓN FANTÁSTICA EN LA OBRA VANGUARDISTA DE JUAN EMAR

Abstract

In this research article I propose that Juan Emar’s story “El pájaro verde” (The green bird) takes the form of fantastic self-fiction as theoretically stated about self-fiction by Vincent Colonna. Another proposal is that in this narration the self-fictional forms acquires its avant-garde features by being placed in correlation with a meta-discursiveness typical of narrative modernism. Such correlation can be read from the studies of Walter Benjamin where he articulates the conceptual series which cover from the concept of experience, going through the concept of memory (voluntarily), linked to that of conscience, until that of narration. I finally propose that the expression “I have seen a green bird”, the leitmotive of the short story, constitutes the emarian synthesis of the conceptual series, that is, the way of elaborating the relatable experience with a self-cognitive purpose.