El burdel y sus malquerientes: deseo y represión en Juntacadáveres, de Juan Carlos Onetti

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the categories of desire and repression in the work Juntacadáveres (2007), by Juan Carlos Onetti, to reflect on the control mechanisms exercised by the state, and the forms of resistance that are manifested from marginal spaces, in particular, from de brothel. We will start out from the following question: in what way does the presence of the brothel function as an alternative space, where desire acts as a device that provokes the outbreak of binarisms and discourses of control and repression by state, in the search of the liberty? For the analysis of the novel we will use the contributions of Gilles Deleuze (2004), Michel Foucault (2008) and Rodrigo Cánovas (2003). The methodology will be qualitative and within hermeneutics, we will take discourse analysis as the point of study. It is expected at the end of the study to show that the brothel in the novel is a trigger for characters’ freedom through desire in the oppressive world of Santa María. These results will be a contribution on the dissemination of Latin American literature and the studies of a fundamental author in the Latin American literature of the twentieth century.