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Mascarita's Metamorphosis: Vargas Llosa and Kafka

Mascarita's Metamorphosis: Vargas Llosa and Kafka Mascarita's Metamorphosis : Vargas Llosa and Kafka Roy Chandler Caldwell Jr. The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 50-68 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0003 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415326/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries MASCARITA'S METAMORPHOSIS: VARGAS LLOSA AND KAFKA Roy Chandler Caldwell, Jr. The eponymous storyteller of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel El Hablador (1987) undergoes a transformation nearly as radical as Gregor Samsa's in Kafka's Die Verwandlung. Saúl Zuratas—better known as Mascarita, 'Mask-face'—leaves his promising university career and disappears into the Amazonian jungle to Uve among an isolated Naturvolk, the Machi- guengas. WhUe other Westerners—missionaries, anthropologists, trad- ers—likewise penetrate remote zones and encounter other peoples, Mas- carita goes further than they. He not only adopts Machiguenga language and Machiguenga ways and beUefs, but also appears to have completely abandoned Western values and Western practices. Mascarita does not encounter the Other; he has become the Other. The role he plays in his chosen culture symboUzes the depth of his assimüation: a storyteller, he has made himself the repository of Machiguenga narrative, thus assum- ing responsibüity for preserving his new people's threatened identity. For Mascarita, as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Mascarita's Metamorphosis: Vargas Llosa and Kafka

Caldwell, Roy Chandler.
The Comparatist , Volume 25 – Oct 3, 2012
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Mascarita's Metamorphosis : Vargas Llosa and Kafka Roy Chandler Caldwell Jr. The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 50-68 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0003 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415326/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries MASCARITA'S METAMORPHOSIS: VARGAS LLOSA AND KAFKA Roy Chandler Caldwell, Jr. The eponymous storyteller of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel El Hablador (1987) undergoes a transformation nearly as radical as Gregor Samsa's in Kafka's Die Verwandlung. Saúl Zuratas—better known as Mascarita, 'Mask-face'—leaves his promising university career and disappears into the Amazonian jungle to Uve among an isolated Naturvolk, the Machi- guengas. WhUe other Westerners—missionaries, anthropologists, trad- ers—likewise penetrate remote zones and encounter other peoples, Mas- carita goes further than they. He not only adopts Machiguenga language and Machiguenga ways and beUefs, but also appears to have completely abandoned Western values and Western practices. Mascarita does not encounter the Other; he has become the Other. The role he plays in his chosen culture symboUzes the depth of his assimüation: a storyteller, he has made himself the repository of Machiguenga narrative, thus assum- ing responsibüity for preserving his new people's threatened identity. For Mascarita, as

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