Approach to the thought of Fernando Vallejo through the reading of 'El Desbarrancadero'

Ricart Miquel

doi:10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00024.3

Approach to the thought of Fernando Vallejo through the reading of 'El Desbarrancadero'

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Ricart Miquel University of Barcelona, Faculty of Law, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6395-6841

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https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00024.3%20

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Hell, memories, life, death, evil, Fernando Vallejo, El Desbarrancadero, Infierno, recuerdos, vida, muerte, maldad

Abstract

The article aims to interpret (and to some extent comment on) some of Fernando Vallejo's thoughts contained in his novel El Desbarrancadero. The Colombian author's text includes deep reflections on essential issues of human existence and their fundamental circumstances.

Throughout the pages of El Desbarrancadero, ideas about life are exposed in their most critical aspect, masterfully described by Vallejo. They are subjects that often –though they are all well-known– are nevertheless little commented, due to what some might call a certain conceptual hardness and rigor.

The author of Medellín is characterized by his freedom in saying what he thinks. That frankness (after all, courage), and that depth and literary beauty at the same time, make El Desbarrancadero one of the most important philosophical novels ever written in Spanish.

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El artículo pretende interpretar (y en alguna medida comentar) los pensamientos de Fernando Vallejo contenidos en su novela El Desba-rrancadero. El texto del autor colombiano incluye reflexiones profundas sobre temas esenciales de la existencia humana y de sus circunstancias fundamentales.

A lo largo de las páginas de El desbarrancadero se van exponiendo ideas sobre la vida en su aspecto más crítico, descritas de forma magistral por Vallejo. Son temas que a menudo –pese a ser son de todos conocidos– son sin embargo poco comentados, debido a lo que algunos podrían llamar una cierta dureza y rigor conceptuales.

Caracteriza al autor el Medellín su libertad al decir lo que piensa. Esa franqueza (al cabo, valentía), y esa profundidad y la vez belleza literarias, hacen de El Desbarrancadero una de las más importantes novelas “de ideas” que se han escrito en lengua castellana.

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1. Article Language="Primarily Spanish, with abstract in English and Spanish" 2. Article title in Spanish : Aproximación al pensamiento de Fernando Vallejo a través de la lectura de ‘El Desbarrancadero’ DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00024.3

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Approach to the thought of Fernando Vallejo through the reading of ‘El Desbarrancadero’

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Miquel, R. (2018). Approach to the thought of Fernando Vallejo through the reading of ’El Desbarrancadero’. SOCRATES, 5(3 and 4), 82–87. https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00024.3

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Vol. 5 No. 3 and 4 (2017): Issue-September and December

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