Mujica Lainez y su simulacro: gestión de su posición social y saber legítimo-‘familiar’ como recursos constantes de su competencia literaria

• Main Author: Sergio M. Fernández
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2012-10-01
• Series: Recial
• Subjects: Mujica Lainez; simulacro; gestión; legitimidad socio-literaria; saber familiar
• Online Access: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/7938

We propose to analyze how Manuel Mujica Lainez, during his career as writer, dedicated efforts in his discourse in order to show a discursive “ image of oneself ” (pretense), by managing or pointing out (Costa-Mozejko, 2002, 2011) two resources he privileges –but not the only two he has. In this way, he tried to favor his legitimacy by the discursive emphasis put not only in his social origin and membership, but also in the family knowledge, exhibited as legitimate inheritance of some ancestors of him. Therefore, we will observe the writer M. Mujica Lainez -as social agent-, besides the accumulation of resources progressively capitalized along his career in the contemporary literary system of relationships, he chose for these two discursive constants in order to construct again and again his pretense (variable in others aspects, relatively and diachronically).