La jugada de todos los tiemposMito y fútbol en la literatura hispánica

Abstract

Literature provides a new sense of soccer, giving us the necessary tools to interpret the subjective and collective experience of this sport and global spectacle. This doctoral thesis analyzes fictional texts that develop soccer as a theme in Hispanic literature. Thematology and comparatism help us to enter into a dialogue with those works grouped under the name of football literature. Myth is the theoretical base that permits to establish a nexus between soccer and literature. In this texts on football as a literary theme there is a large number of common motifs fixed in the collective imaginary. This thesis is presented as a panorama that traces the presence and perdurability of the myth in the most relevant expressions of this sport in Hispanic literature. Soccer literature interlace the mythification of real episodes with the creation of a symbolic universe. Soccer goes from the gesture to the word, from the word to the narration and, finally, from the narration to the story. Football, in this way, becomes myth to survive in the literature.