Title

París, final de fiesta, en Los trasplantados (1904) de Alberto Blest Gana

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-4-2022

Department 1

Spanish

Department 2

Latin American Studies

Abstract

Los Trasplantados (1904) de Alberto Blest Gana aborda las peripecias de una familia hispanoamericana que, en Francia, acaba sacrificando a una de sus hijas al querer ligarse, vía matrimonial, con la aristocracia europea. El emprendedor arribismo del patriarca de la familia, que ascendió al integrarse a la elite provincial de su país de origen, colapsa en París. El viaje de la familia Canalejas da paso a una residencia de años y a un relato moralizante sobre el naufragio social, ético y cultural de quienes no solo van a gozar Europa, sino a integrarse a la ciudad que han imaginado desde América Latina a fines del siglo XIX. Los hijos acaban naufragando entre mundos, sin entender ninguno de ellos.

Alberto Blest Gana’s Los Trasplantados (1904) narrates the saga of a Hispanic American family that, in France, ends up sacrificing sacrifice one of their daughters by way of marriage to access a decadent aristocratic figure. The family patriarch’s entrepreneurial vocation, the same that allowed him to rose into the social ranks of the provincial elite in his country of origin, collapses in Paris. The Canalejas’ initial journey gives way to a two years residence over a moralizing narrative about the social, ethical and cultural wreckage endured by those who not only aspire to enjoy Europe but to sacrifice everything to feel fully integrated into a city imagined from Latin America. Above all, the children are worse off, losing their places in both worlds and unable to understand either.

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DOI

10.4067/s0071-17132022000100007

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