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1 THE POET AND THE CHRONICLER. Reflection of the Spanish American reality in the prose of Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsiváis ABSTRACT Analysing selected essays by Octavio Paz and literary crónicas by Carlos Monsiváis we try to demonstrate that the relationship between the literary and journalistic works of the two authors is that of complementariness rather than opposition as many literary critics have understood it. Joint reading of the works of these two perhaps most important Mexican intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century facilitates their understanding as both Paz's and Monsiváis's critical thinking comes out of the 19th century Mexican liberal tradition. The first chapter deals with the literary representation of the crucial year of 1968 in Mexico in the Critique of the pyramid (Crítica de la pirámide, 1970) by Octavio Paz and in Days to remember (Días de guardar, 1970) by Carlos Monsiváis. We concentrate on the metaphor and the irony as different modes of historical imagination of the studied authors, on the sources of their figurative expression (holistic archetypal conception of the world in contrast to the fragmenting use of polyphony) and the tone which the authors use to address their readers. We consider the ideas of Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur and M. M. Bakhtin as our theoretical... |
