2020
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Emilie Boyer, « El Asma de Leviatán de Roberto Armijo: Ítaca entre dos orillas, Centroamérica y Babilonia », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.h7hona
The novel of the Salvadorian author Roberto Armijo postulates a reencounter with the authenticity of his origins from the perspective of the exileand new cultural references that shape the image of the missed homeland without marking an opposition between the two worlds. A lot of juxtaposedvoices are used by the author, without the reader knowing the identity or location of the narrators that alternate between Central America and Babylonia/Paris. Throughout this polyphony, the novel elaborates a mix of legends, tales and stories from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and uses crossedreferences to the Popol Vuh and the Bible. By means of the figure of the Leviathan monster, the rewriting of the biblical myth appears as a writer’s strategyto reencounter his Ithaca, without rejecting the contributions of the exile and his traveled pathway.