A discussion in the family of gaitan's assassin: an aesthetic study of an everyday situation

Abstract

The aesthetic analysis of everyday situations is basically the point of convergence of the dramatic modalities and rhetorical registers which account for the multiple elements that take place within the processes of meaning and communication. Thus, based on the novel El Crimen del Siglo [The Crime of the Century] by Miguel Torres, the following paper aims to analyze a discussion between Juan Roa Sierra, suspected assassin of Jorge Elicier Gaitán, and his former wife. In this respect, Katya Mandoki proposes in her works on Prosaics a method of analysis that considers the rhetorical registers -acoustic, somatic, scopic, lexic- within the dramatic modalities -proxemics, kinetics, emphatics, fluxion. Mandoki's proposal will provide a basis for the analysis of the discussion between the former married couple, which might be considered a common and everyday situation. The paper accounts for the possible causes that might have lead Juan Roa Sierra to act in such a way and aims to explain how the rhetorical registers and the dramatic modalities make sense against the background of the discussion.