The sore

Gabriel Casaccia

1. Bibliographic Data

1.1 Title of the work:
                                  The sore

1.2 Author of the work:
                                 Gabriel Casaccia

1.3 Biography of the author:
                                      Benigno Gabriel Casaccia Bibolini was born in Asunción on April 20, 1907 and died in Buenos Aires on November 24, 1980. Between Asunción, Buenos Aires and Posadas he made secondary studies during 1919 to 1926, after which he enrolled in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Asunción. In 1933, as a war auditor, he was in the Chaco for six months, an experience that served him to write the story “At times lost”, the only work in which he dealt with the theme of war. From 1935 to 1952 he lived in Posadas alternating literary creation with his work as a lawyer, he would repeat it in Buenos Aires, a city to which he moved in 1952.

1.4 Literary production:

Novels

Mario Pareda (1939)
The slug (1952)
The Wound (1963)
The Exiles (1966).
The Heirs (1975)
Los Huertas (1981), published later.

Stories

The Guajhu (1938)
The Well (1947)
The Life of a Drunk (1953)
"The Secret of the Franco Sisters"

Theater

The Bandit (1932).

1.5 Literary movement:
                                           Paraguayan Realism and Critical Realism

1.6 Social historical context:
                                                 The novel reflects the political situation that Paraguay was going through, a nation without freedom, without the right to express its opinion or express its way of thinking, oppressed by the repression of the dictatorial regime of General Stroessner, capable of doing anything in order to stay in the power.

2. Analysis of the form:

2.1 Structure of the work:
                                            The introduction of the work is given in the first chapter, where the main characters are presented, the situation of their daily lives and the way in which their lives are intertwined. The knot develops in the following chapters and the outcome begins in the middle of the penultimate chapter, where the problems found in the knot are culminated.

2.2 Form of the expression:
                                           The work is written in prose, because the verse must meet certain measures and cadence. Prose must not necessarily rhyme and there is no metric in it.

2.3 Type of language:
                                 Colloquial, because Casaccia makes the characters speak in a language we would use daily

2.4 Narrator:
                     Third omniscient person

3. Content analysis

3.1 Discursive Gender:
                                    Narrative

3.2 Textual Genre:
                                Novel

3.3 Subject:
                 The repression

3.4 Characteristics of the characters:

Gilberto: frustrated artist, dishonest and rebellious man
Constancy: Cantero's widow, mother of Atilio, dishonest and obsessive forty-year-old woman
Atilio: young man without character with an almost morbid obsession towards his mother

3.5 Time:
                     In an interval of several weeks.

3.6 Space:
                   In Paraguay, in the city of Areguá

3.7 Content argument:
                                                   It is the story of a widow whose husband has committed suicide, she has a younger and married lover. The widow's son suffers a sickly jealousy for that relationship of his mother, the plot comes to an end when Atilio, the widow's son reveals an uprising against the leader of the country, in which Gilberto, the widow's lover Constancia, is involved, he does this out of jealousy towards his mother.
   The problem created after the revelation and the fault were too much for the young man and he ends up committing suicide.

3.8 Values:
                   In the work the value that stands out is the unconditional love that is presented by Gilberto's wife, who accompanies him through everything, through the disapproval of his father, through poverty and finally accompanies him to be jailed

4. Critical appraisal

4.1 Valuation of the work:
                                            The work was easy to read, since the topics discussed were interesting and the most vulgar aspects of man were represented, immersion in history was easy because of the way it is written, it facilitates the task of sympathizing with the characters and understand the author's intention.
        It was a work that reached my heart and the plot feels like one that could happen in real life to anyone