Ilusión de mímesis y amenidad en "la Reina Isabel cantaba rancheras", de Hernán Rivera Letelier

Chilean writer Rivera Letelier's novel is analyzed through the lens of theoretical concepts developed, mainly, by Genette, Barthes and Solotorevsky. The present analysis reveals a predominance of mimetic devices -i.e., methods and strategies by means of which the text attempts to disguise its fictitious and artificial nature. Likewise, the novel exhibits a colorful work of craftsmanship at the linguistic level, which nevertheless does not undermine the transitive character of the text's language. La Reina Isabel emerges as a "text of pleasure" (Barthes), whose attitude toward the reader is friendly, and which can be assigned to the "new simplicity" (Kohut) that characterizes most of the Latin-American narrative following the "boom".