Language, abstraction and symbol in Felisberto Hernández’s narrative works

Abstract

By the means of the development of a theoretical model and its further
application to concrete texts, this paper makes its point on the nature of literary language which is understood as the verbalization of an abstract object by means of a “function-symbol” and on the particularities of this nature in Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández’s narrative works throughout a revision of the term “metonymy”.