Publication: De pillos y dragones. Dos cuentos de Antonio Castro Leal
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Blancas Blancas, Noé
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Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, Editum
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En los relatos “El laurel de San Lorenzo” y “El dragón pragmatista”, Antonio
Castro Leal nos ofrece su visión de la Revolución Mexicana y del positivismo
porfirista, respectivamente, que constituyen toda una valoración de la
mexicanidad. En el primero, el campesino Genovevo guía a una horda de
revolucionarios desbalagados para saquear y ultrajar una pequeña
población, al final es castigado con la horca; en el segundo, Aníbal Altozano,
un estudiante de Filosofía, pretende, mediante el dominio de la Lógica, vivir
de los tontos. Revolución y Lógica son entonces concebidas por el
campesino y el estudiante como una legitimación del pillaje –“adueñarse de
lo ajeno para tener […] lo que tenían los ricos”–, que Castro Leal identifica
como un retorcido pragmatismo derivado del Positivismo porfirista. Aún
más, como un ultraje a toda idea de nación y a la Filosofía misma –el ideal
helénico. Con esta percepción, los dos relatos podrían leerse como la
síntesis de la poética del autor y, al mismo tiempo, de la visión nacional de
toda una generación.
Antonio Castro Leal, in the stories “El laurel de San Lorenzo” and “El dragón pragmatista”, offers his vision about Revolución Mexicana and about Positivismo of Porfiriato, respectively, which is a valuation of the “mexicanidad”. In the first story, the peasant Genovevo introduces a horde of deserters “revolucionarios” in order to loot and outrage a little town, finally hi was hanged; in the second story, a Logic student, Aníbal Altozano, claims, through the domain of the Logic, live off of fools. “Revolución” and Logic are conceived by the peasant and by the student like a legitimation of pillage –“take over the affairs of others for to have […] what the rich haves”–, that Castro Leal identifies a like mistaken pragmatism derived from “porfiriano” Positivism. Even more, this is an outrage for any idea of nation and for the Philosophie self –the Hellenic ideal. With this perception, both stories could be read like a synthesis of the poetic of the author and, at the same time, of the national vision of a whole generation.
Antonio Castro Leal, in the stories “El laurel de San Lorenzo” and “El dragón pragmatista”, offers his vision about Revolución Mexicana and about Positivismo of Porfiriato, respectively, which is a valuation of the “mexicanidad”. In the first story, the peasant Genovevo introduces a horde of deserters “revolucionarios” in order to loot and outrage a little town, finally hi was hanged; in the second story, a Logic student, Aníbal Altozano, claims, through the domain of the Logic, live off of fools. “Revolución” and Logic are conceived by the peasant and by the student like a legitimation of pillage –“take over the affairs of others for to have […] what the rich haves”–, that Castro Leal identifies a like mistaken pragmatism derived from “porfiriano” Positivism. Even more, this is an outrage for any idea of nation and for the Philosophie self –the Hellenic ideal. With this perception, both stories could be read like a synthesis of the poetic of the author and, at the same time, of the national vision of a whole generation.
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