Literary and paremiological antecedents of Latin American minifiction

Abstract

Microfiction stands out as the most hybrid literary genre; a characteristic that is not only due to the author's writing art and aesthetic touch, but also to the diversity of his origins. This research seeks to demonstrate the polygenesis of minifiction, showing that its emergence is not limited to a single literary model, as some critical voices maintained, but that it has been nourished by dissimilar influences. The micro-story is the result of the combination of features belonging to archaic, modernist and extra-literary literary genres, especially paremiological. At a methodological level, a contrastive analysis is proposed between the microstory and these genres to identify similarities and differences in terms of structure, style, language, themes and narrative techniques. This analysis will allow us to identify the chromosomes inherited from each ancestor and define the DNA of the microstory as an independent narrative genre. Microfictions will be examined along with representative examples of the genres that have influenced their development.