Resumen

DIAZ GONZALEZ DOMINGUEZ, Cuauhtémoc. Metamorphosis of the loss in three Amparo Davila’s short stories. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2020, n.21, pp.123-145.  Epub 15-Feb-2021. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.vi21.322.

Amparo Dávila is a fundamental figure of Mexican letters. Her storytelling explores, through her female characters, the crises and changes in the lives of Mexican women during the twentieth century. This article analyzes three stories, “Música concreta”, “Griselda” y “El ultimo verano”, using myth-cristicism as methodology, which was developed by the French anthropologist Gilbert Durand. This critical horizon facilitates exposing the mythical-symbolic fabric hidden in the chosen short-stories, when the characters suffer a bereavement, like the death of a husband, the end of a marriage or an abortion. This collapse of their lives leads the characters to evoke an imagined metamorphosis, whether animal or vegetable, as a way of resisting the roles socially assigned to them, that is, wives and mothers.

Palabras llave : metamorphosis; loss; woman; myth-criticism; symbol.

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