Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández

Abstract

This article analyses three stories from the book De fronteras by Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández: Mediodía de fronteras, Carretera sin buey and Lázaro, el buitre, in the light of Kafka’s animal narratives in which conventional human perspectives on animals and animality are subverted, thus configuring a gaze of their own. A gaze that in Hernández’s stories, through the narrator’s voice, allows us to imagine a symbiosis between the animal and the human.

Keywords

• franz kafka
• claudia hernández
• animals
• salvadoran short story
• mini-fiction