Framed stories. Symbolic-verbal gallery structured in the novel Pecado by Laura Restrepo

Abstract

This article makes an analytical reading of the novel Pecado by the Colombian author Laura Restrepo through an ekphrastic approach. The objectives of this study are to demonstrate that the literary text can be interpreted as a symbolic-verbal gallery that relativizes the notion of Evil, since it is conceived from the biblical idea of sin as an anatomical condition of human beings and to exhibit it from another denaturalized perspective in order to acknowledge the curatorial work carried out by the author. The relationships between the text and the images are argued with Valerie Robillard's "differential model" (2011); to determine to what extent the novel is linked to its visual referent and with the idea of Jesús Ponce Cárdenas (2014), who considers "exhibition" as the basic principle of the verbal picture gallery. This study will prove that Pecado can be read as a verbal recreation of some pictorial fragments of "El jardín de las delicias" and how they are symbolically related.