La transformación de la écfrasis del escudo de Eneas ("Eneida" VIII 636-731) en "Lavinia", de Ursula Le Guin

Abstract

In this paper we intend to analyze the treatment of the ekphrasis of Aeneas’ shield included in Virgil’s Aeneid book VIII made by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in her historical novel Lavinia (2008). This novel is a rewriting of the Aeneid from the gendered perspective and with the voice of a woman, Lavinia. The artistic object recreated by Virgil has become the subject of numerous interpretations and reworkings due to the resources used for its description and due to the political and ideological significance of the pictures of the History of Rome carved into it. So, it has been. The feminist reading carried out by Le Guin makes a series of modifications both at the level of discourse (narrative voice, focalization) and at the level of story (selection and suppression, addition, rearrangement, fragmentation) that grants the novel a new meaning and value.