THE AVATAR IN PANAMA - Theses - Flinders University

2.1 The North American Double The Avatar in Panamacentury writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and O. Henry: “Monsieur du Miroir”and “The Dream” are compared with “Testigo”, “Agua de mar”, and“Mientras dormía”. Ironically, these typical temporally divergent talescombine features apparent in several of Jaramillo Levi’s mostpostmodern examples of fiction. Various innovative perspectives andplanes of consiousness are presented resulting in the characters’difficulty situating themselves amongst them. The upshot is thatJaramillo Levi’s readers must also work harder and entertain thepossibility of multiple narrative interpretations. F. Scott Fitzgerald, arepresentative of the modern era, also contributed to the literature of thedouble with his “One Trip Abroad” which exploited the unusual conceptof the couple-double. This was also found in Jaramillo Levi’s“Duplicaciones” (and Hernán Lara Zavala’s “Reflejos”). While the NorthAmerican examples of doubles and doubling seem not to be ascharacter-driven or psychologically prepared as those in the precedingEuropean chapter, they do present variations in narrative styles all ofwhich have made an impact on the fictional work of Enrique JaramilloLevi.91