City, Terror and Myth: the Conception of the Literary Gothic from the Prehispanic Myth in the Stories La llorona by Artemio del Valle-Arizpe, La fiesta brava by José Emilio Pacheco, and Año cero by Bernardo Esquinca
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This reading seeks to confirm the link between prehispanic myth and the fantastic and gothic modalities in the Mexican stories "La llorona" (1936) by Artemio del Valle-Arizpe, "La fiesta brava" (1972) by José Emilio Pacheco and "Año cero" (2010) by Bernardo Esquinca. Starting from the category called "Prehispanic Mythical Gothic," the concept of terror is analyzed, together with the symbolic dimension explicit in the Amerindian mythical motives and worldview. This study proposes prehispanic myth as the originator and organizer of the literary matter of these selected stories and establishes, from them, a connection to other Latin American texts that share this same aesthetic vision.
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Calvo, Karen Alejandra. “City, Terror and Myth: the Conception of the Literary Gothic from the Prehispanic Myth in the Stories La llorona by Artemio del Valle-Arizpe, La fiesta brava by José Emilio Pacheco, and Año cero by Bernardo Esquinca”. Mitologías hoy, 2019, vol.VOL 19, pp. 195-13, https://raco.cat/index.php/mitologias/article/view/359499.
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