Escenas de lectura en Margarita está linda la mar de Sergio Ramí­rez

Abstract

By adopting an approach linked to the history of reading, this article analyzes some reading scenes in Nicaraguan Sergio Ramirez’s novel Margarita está linda la mar (1998). The analysis allows us to visualize certain ways of reading prevalent in Nicaraguan society in the first half of the twentieth century. From this perspective, we show how reading becomes a constructive principle of the novel itself, while the tandem read / write is confronted with oral popular sayings. Finally, through the figure of the teacher, we shall consider the social and cultural belonging of voices authorized to organize the elements of culture