Structuralist analysis in "The six problems of don Isidro Parodi" by H. Bustos Domecq

Structuralism is used as an analysing method in twentieth century in literature as well as in psychology, philosophy, art, music, theatre and education. It is a literary criticism theory which aims to analyze profoundly linguistic components in the text and put forward the general structure of literary products. Structural analysing method deals the linguistic structure of the text. This study, which applies the structural analysing to the literature, contains the detection of the structure and decoding the text in The Six Problems of Don Isidro Parodi by H. Bustos Domecq. This study aims to find out the structural regulations of the stories in The Six Problems of Don Isidro Parodi by determining the contrasts and the similarities of the linguistic components that forms the structure. The stories are put in order by forming structures. Key Words: Literary criticism, Linguistic, Structuralism, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares.