El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes
This paper analyzes the humorous rewriting of the apocalyptic discourse in Cristóbal Nonato (1987) by Carlos Fuentes. The revolutionnary utopia of the traditional apocalyptic discourse is questionned through the novel’s radical scepticism. However, Mexico’s scatological and grotesque portrait, subme...
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| description | This paper analyzes the humorous rewriting of the apocalyptic discourse in Cristóbal Nonato (1987) by Carlos Fuentes. The revolutionnary utopia of the traditional apocalyptic discourse is questionned through the novel’s radical scepticism. However, Mexico’s scatological and grotesque portrait, submerged by garbage and excrements, does not prevent literature to fulfill a redemptive function in a postapocalyptic society where the end is no longer imminent but immanent (Kermode). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9d862b75dabe4ee0949a4b26cdcdb2f72025-01-09T16:15:28ZspaPresses universitaires du MidiCaravelle1147-67532272-98282015-06-0110419320710.4000/caravelle.1665El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos FuentesBrigitte AdriaensenThis paper analyzes the humorous rewriting of the apocalyptic discourse in Cristóbal Nonato (1987) by Carlos Fuentes. The revolutionnary utopia of the traditional apocalyptic discourse is questionned through the novel’s radical scepticism. However, Mexico’s scatological and grotesque portrait, submerged by garbage and excrements, does not prevent literature to fulfill a redemptive function in a postapocalyptic society where the end is no longer imminent but immanent (Kermode).https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/1665Mexicothe grotesque(post)apocalypsisCarlos FuentesCristóbal Nonato |
| spellingShingle | Brigitte Adriaensen El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes Caravelle Mexico the grotesque (post)apocalypsis Carlos Fuentes Cristóbal Nonato |
| title | El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes |
| title_full | El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes |
| title_fullStr | El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes |
| title_full_unstemmed | El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes |
| title_short | El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes |
| title_sort | el acapulcalipsis en cacapulco humor grotesco y apocalipsis en cristobal nonato de carlos fuentes |
| topic | Mexico the grotesque (post)apocalypsis Carlos Fuentes Cristóbal Nonato |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/1665 |
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