Diagnosis del hombre moderno en Minotauroamor de Abelardo Arias
Discourse analysis in Abelardo Arias’ Minotauroamor allows the reader to access a series of concepts about man and his realities: love, friendship, art, and power, among others. Even though these relate to all the characters, they are focalized on the two protagonists: Minotaur and Theseus. In f...
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| Sumario: | Discourse analysis in Abelardo Arias’ Minotauroamor allows the
reader to access a series of concepts about man and his realities: love,
friendship, art, and power, among others. Even though these relate to
all the characters, they are focalized on the two protagonists: Minotaur
and Theseus. In fact, Abelardo Arias has declared that what prompted
him to write the novel was a vital question that haunted him: the true
condition of modern man. The Mendocinian writer seemed to understand,
already, a marked degradation of the values of our culture; and
he wishes to awaken his contemporaries’ conscience through these
magnificent pages. That is why this paper aims at showing not only the
great literary value of the novel, but also the link between the characters
and the underlying concept of “normal man”. In so doing, we try
to elucidate how the ideas supported by the writer are projected on this
literary space.
To do so, I will briefly point the coincidences and modulations
between the original myth and the Mendocinian novelist’s recreation,
to concentrate on the analysis of fragments on man’s “diagnosis”. For
this approach, I take into account Alfonso López Quintás’ Diagnosis of
contemporary man, published in the same year as the novel, a study
which shows - from another perspective - the same concerns as those
in Arias’ work.
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