Los tópicos femeninos en Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes, de Álvaro Cunqueiro

Zusammenfassung

Álvaro Cunqueiro, in his novel Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes(1969), which granted him the Premio Nadal, recreates the Greek myth of Orestes in a peculiar and innovative way. He introduces some new characters and substantially changes the traits of the already existing ones in the classic tradition. In this work wewill analyse the author’streatment of the four main female characters and how these end up fitting into well-known literary topoi. Although it is undeniable that femalecharacters in Cunqueiro’s novels often lack the depth of their masculine counterparts,topoi in this case do not respond to a simplification, but rather to the writer’s liking for the constant game of literary references of ever kind and period.