The child's point of view in Las horcas caudinas, by Juan García Hortelano: creating a verisimilar narrator

Abstract

As critics have already noted, García Hortelano focuses on the children’s universe in some of his short stories. They are stories told from the perspective of a child that is largely a literary transcript of the author in his childhood and adolescence. This paper will analyze the textual strategies to create that childish voice, mainly in the story Las horcas caudinas.