KATHIE AND THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, MARIO VARGAS LLOSA'S METADRAMA: «LIES THAT BECOME TRUTHS»

Ancajima S.V.C. · Acotaciones (2025) · DOI: 10.32621/acotaciones.2025.54.10

Resumen

Vargas Llosa practices the need to reflect on his own creation, on his own literary writing, and even that of others. He has made this reflection a systematic and reiterated theory over the years to the point that his literary work competes with his essayistic and conceptual prose, such as The Truth of Lies, Historia de un deicidio, La orgía perpetua, etc. It is not possible to ignore what can be called metawriting, a game of disguises in his literature. The writer goes beyond the metadramatic and establishes himself in metaliterature, in metafiction. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to analyze the author's metadrama, in the staging of Kathie and the hippopotamus, produced and premiered for the first time in Spain by the Teatro Español, in 2013. The analysis of This work is based on the category called dramatic vision, proposed by José Luis García Barrientos. The Spanish theorist promotes, in turn, three subcategories for the study: levels, distance and perspective. The first has the objective of scrutinizing the fiction/metafiction game; the second, about the balance between the illusion of reality and the exhibition of theatrical artifice; and the third, the voice or the angle through which we see what we see. Copyright:

Instituciones: Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo