The Local, the Universal and the Death
an Analysis of “El hombre”, by Juan Rulfo
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Juan Rulfo, El Hombre, regionalism, universality, deathAbstract
This article proposes to identify in the short story “El Hombre” an example of how regionalism and universality merge in the literature of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, composing a narrative of typically Spanish American traces, which is achieved in the short story by approaching the theme of death. For this purpose, it presents the relation of the Rulfo texts with the social, historical, and morphoclimatic contexts of a mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Coping with the consequences of the developments of the Mexican Revolution of 1910; it is aimed to a detailing of the motives that the Rulfian writings are taken beyond regionalism; and, finally, it is expanded how the theme of death, its conception as an obstacle, and the transgression to this obstacle are present in the short story under analysis. This discussion is based on Antonio Candido (1989), Davi Arrigucci Junior (1987), Silvano Santiago (2013), and Georges Bataille (1987), among others.
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