Abstract

PAREDES, Alberto. Countries are also created out of literary discussions: Alfonso Reyes and the Mexicanity of Ruiz de Alarcón. Lit. mex [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.1, pp.101-121. ISSN 2448-8216.

Alfonso Reyes is one of the principal proponents of the idea (almost a campaign) to make one Juan Ruiz de Alarcón into not just being a Mexican, but the very prototype of Mexicanicity. In his fortieth year, Reyes pronounced a discourse for the "Third centenary [of the death] of Alarcón" (1639-1939). The same which proposed and composed an Alarcón as a Mexican (not a native of New Spain) avant la lettre et avant le Cri. Forty-six years after the classic article by Antonio Alatorre, "Towards the history of a problem: the Mexicanicity of Ruiz de Alarcón" (1964), Alberto Paredes examines the ideas and the stylistic-argumentative resources of Reyes, lingering on the powers of Reyes' pen; Paredes invites: "Let's have, thus momentarily, the gesture of setting aside ideology to speak of stylistics."

Keywords : Juan Ruiz de Alarcón; Alfonso Reyes; Mexicanicity; nationalism; stylistics.

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