El artículo analiza las causas históricas que han llevado al fracaso de algunosproyectos de modernización que se narran de manera simbólica tanto en Pedro Páramo como en Cien años de soledad. Estas causas podrían tener su origen en el trauma de la Conquista y en una coacción a repetir las dinámicas de ese episodio histórico original. De ese fracaso deriva la condición purgatorial que caracteriza ambas novelas, pobladas de muertos-vivos y vivos-muertos. En efecto, aquí se entiende por condición purgatorial una situación de suspensión entre una vida y una muerte entendidas metafóricamente, es decir, entre un pasado que no pasa y un futuro que aún no adviene, entre tradición y modernidad. Este estado remite a un sentido de expiación que, sin embargo, no está destinado a producir ninguna redención.
This paper investigates the historical reasons behind the failure of some projects of modernization represented metaphorically both in Pedro Páramo and in Cien años de soledad. These reasons seem related to the traumatic experience of the Conquest and to a compulsion to repeat the dynamics of that historical ancestral event. This failure resonates in the purgatorial condition that characterizes the two novels, both populated by dead people who seem alive and by living people who seem dead. As matter a of fact with the espression “purgatorial condition” we indicate a situation of suspension between life and death metaphorically considered, between a ever present past and a never arriving future, between tradition and modernity. This situation recalls an idea of expiation that nevertheless doesn’t lead to any salvation.
«Los muertos que no mueren en 'Pedro Páramo' y en 'Cien años de soledad'» / Luche, Laura; Brugnolo, Stefano. - In: TALLER DE LETRAS. - ISSN 0716-0798. - 46:(2010), pp. 125-148.
«Los muertos que no mueren en 'Pedro Páramo' y en 'Cien años de soledad'»
LUCHE, Laura;
2010-01-01
Abstract
This paper investigates the historical reasons behind the failure of some projects of modernization represented metaphorically both in Pedro Páramo and in Cien años de soledad. These reasons seem related to the traumatic experience of the Conquest and to a compulsion to repeat the dynamics of that historical ancestral event. This failure resonates in the purgatorial condition that characterizes the two novels, both populated by dead people who seem alive and by living people who seem dead. As matter a of fact with the espression “purgatorial condition” we indicate a situation of suspension between life and death metaphorically considered, between a ever present past and a never arriving future, between tradition and modernity. This situation recalls an idea of expiation that nevertheless doesn’t lead to any salvation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.