The Perversion of Violence in the Mexican Revolution Fiction
Abstract The following paper focuses on the subject of violence in three short stories that are framed within the historical period of the Mexican Revolution. The proposed discussion seeks to analyze violence as a common theme in the proposed works of fiction, and is approached from the philosophical perspective of Walter Benjamin, as developed in Critique of Violence (1921). Concurrently, the analysis is grounded on the basis of iusnaturalism, or natural law, for the reason that it is thought to pursue a greater understanding of the complexity of the implicated social phenomenon, but beyond the limitations of the theory of law. Furthermore, the developed discussion focuses on specific examples of capital punishment taken from the three chosen narratives, which correspond to the Mexican writers Julio Torri, José Vasconcelos and Martín Luis Guzmán. The task will be to expose the levels of perversion caused by the degradation of power systems. Consequently, the argument will seek to expose the instability violence, as a means taken by those who attempt to take hold of power; all of which, in turn, is consequently transformed into another form of macabre social entertainment.
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BENJAMIN, Walter. Para una crítica de la violencia. Trad. Héctor A. Murena. Buenos Aires: Leviatán, 1995.
GUZMÁN, Martín Luis. «La fiesta de las balas». En La fiesta de las balas. Cuentos mexicanos. Santiago de Chile: Quimantú, 1974.
TORRI, Julio. «De fusilamientos». En De fusilamientos y otras narraciones. México: FCE, 1984.
VASCONCELOS, José. «Topilejo». En La sonata mágica. México: Conaculta, 1990.
GUZMÁN, Martín Luis. «La fiesta de las balas». En La fiesta de las balas. Cuentos mexicanos. Santiago de Chile: Quimantú, 1974.
TORRI, Julio. «De fusilamientos». En De fusilamientos y otras narraciones. México: FCE, 1984.
VASCONCELOS, José. «Topilejo». En La sonata mágica. México: Conaculta, 1990.
Cruz-Grunerth, G. (2015). The Perversion of Violence in the Mexican Revolution Fiction. 1616: Anuario De Literatura Comparada, 5, 295–302. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/1616_Anuario_Literatura_Comp/article/view/14053
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