Ideological heterodoxy and literary hybridism in Carlos Álvarez’s Aullido de Licántropo

Abstract

This paper focuses on some distinctive aspects of Carlos Álvarez’s Aullido de Licántropo. After considering the main literary precedents of the fictional representation of the werewolf, we will deal with the central challenge of this work, namely the function of the polyphony of narrative voices and of the discursive registers implied in it. The aforementioned polyphony turns out to be a critique of the social and aesthetic conventions to which the Aullido subtly alludes. We will approach the question form a methodologically eclectic perspective, in which prevails, though, Michail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism.