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Pedro Páramo, A Metaphor For The End Of The World, Julio Ortega
Pedro Páramo, A Metaphor For The End Of The World, Julio Ortega
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Rulfo's novel, popular Catholic culture functions as an ideology and as such, it encompasses the totality of the represented universe. Because reality is only captured through ideology, there is no criterion in the novel that is outside ideology and which would therefore offer a critical standpoint, though this criterion does exist by implication in the world of the reader.
Modernity And Marginality In Love In The Time Of Cholera, Mabel Moraña
Modernity And Marginality In Love In The Time Of Cholera, Mabel Moraña
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The two male protagonists of García Márquez's novel, Dr. Urbino and Florentino Ariza (whose lives are linked by their relationship to Fermina Daza), enact to the limit nineteenth century ideologies of scientific progress and romanticism. The anachronistic plot of romantic love taken to the point of parody is deployed by the author as a critique of fin de siècle modernity.