WASHINGTON CUCURTO: THE BAROQUE GESTURE OF AN APOCRYPHAL WRITER IN A LITERATURE WHERE EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE INCLUDES A READING FROM THE COMIC

The aim of this article is to analyze how the poetic of Santiago Vega / Washington Cucurto configures a game -which I analyze as a baroque gesture-where the author mix up with the narrator and the main character: Cucurto. At the same time, Vega/Cucurto defines himself as a negro and as an outsider. This goes beyond literature and reaches the comic with Las Cucurietas magicas whose script was written by Vega under the pseudonym Cucurto -also the name of the main character-; and its drawings were the creation of Pablo Martin. Because of all this, I suggest a transmedia dialogue between Cucurto's literary work and the comic in relation with the same poetic.