SPIRITS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NOVEL LA FERIA
In this article my attention is centered around a group of anonymous voices who, in the novel La feria (1963), by Juan José Arreola (1918-2011), refers to the presence of spirits, who reveal specific areas where treasures are hidden. This story is a part of the artistic work of the former write...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Ra Ximhai |
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| Online Access: | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rTuFIH6cilfAyrVJ0mzC-DE7KPtijKaB/view |
| Summary: | In this article my attention is centered around a group
of anonymous voices who, in the novel La feria (1963),
by Juan José Arreola (1918-2011), refers to the
presence of spirits, who reveal specific areas where
treasures are hidden. This story is a part of the artistic
work of the former writer (Jalisco, Mexico) and is told
with a language that encompasses the footprints of
human happenings, the significance that the
inhabitants of a Mexican rural scope give to their
surroundings, the way they look at themselves and
others and, the accumulation of ancestral knowledge
inherited from generation to generation through
spoken word. The references to the divinatory power
of the spirits is inscribed in this novel as relationships
with a narrative style derived from juridical and
notarized formulas of the colonial times who, in this
fictional universe, legitimize the stories that these
anonymous voices tell. |
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| ISSN: | 1665-0441 1665-0441 |