Vulnerabilidad y retribución: hacia una estética de la cuentística de Xavier Vargas Pardo

Autor: Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Literatura Mexicana. 31:59-83
ISSN: 2448-8216
0188-2546
DOI: 10.19130/iifl.litmex.2020.31.2.0004
Popis: The book Céfero (1961), by Xavier Vargas Pardo, remained unattended by critics until recent years. Reviews right after its publication emphasized its particular use of the rural speech from central Mexico, while contemporary approaches have favored interpretations of the violent deeds described in the eleven short stories of the volume. Next to this violence, another element in the book emerges as a necessary correlative: characters’ vulnerability. This article offers a critical revalorization of Vargas Pardo’s book through the analysis of the conditions of vulnerability in the characters who are both subjects and/or perpetrators of the violence, as well as the acts of retribution by non-human agents who offer an unexpected balance to the absence of justice dominating the book from Michoacán.
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