Severo Sarduy y la evocación perpetua: topónimos, gentilicios y extranjerismos en Maitreya

Abstract

This article analyzes how Severo Sarduy uses toponyms, demonyms, and foreign loanwords in the novel Maitreya (1978). The narrator approaches these words from a deterritorialized perspective, rethinking geography as a science (toponyms), identity as a concept rooted in a homeland (demonyms), and the purity of language as a closed system (foreign loanwords). The analysis hypothesizes that the use of these words as visual-poetic flashes builds a rich idiolect without consideration for their referential function.