Saber ser siervo. La negación del Estado de derecho en El médico de San Luis (1860)
El médico de San Luis is a socio-sentimental novel (Molina) that fictionalizes, through the mechanism of idealization (López), and within a Christian matrix, the life of a family in the 1860´s. We propose that the novel is constructed throughout the tension of two divergent morals. Following previou...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/29416 |
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| Sumario: | El médico de San Luis is a socio-sentimental novel (Molina) that fictionalizes, through the mechanism of idealization (López), and within a Christian matrix, the life of a family in the 1860´s. We propose that the novel is constructed throughout the tension of two divergent morals. Following previous texts about the novel (Viñas, 1974; Molina; Chikiar Bauer, 2013), we seek to offer a reading which highlights the implicit moral, the one not mentioned but suggested along the plot. According to this hidden moral, the economy of violence that, within a State of right, is exerted by the Judicial Power is here carried out by one citizen, who has positioned himself in the role of the master. Through a textual close reading, we intend to demonstrate that the authority of the master is based in certain recurrences: his birth and family privileges, his semiotic monopoly, his tendency to plan a future society and his rhetoric capability of constructing his place of enunciation as the one mediating men and God. We conclude that this novel, conservative and hispano-creole, narrates the story of a revenge, in which certain political gestures are condensed: a hard criticism to 1860 Argentine government, the nostalgia of the past during Rosismo and the point of view of a federal member of the social elite. |
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