Resumen

SANCHEZ ROLON, Elba. The intellectual world and the ivory tower: an approach to four stories by Enrique Serna. Lit. mex [online]. 2013, vol.24, n.2, pp.103-122. ISSN 2448-8216.

In the recent Mexican literature, the narrative voice by Enrique Serna stands out for its marked critical nature toward strategies of power present in the cultural field. The irony and formulations close to the absurd shape a cultural discomfort present in stories, novels and essays. In this work we reviewed four stories by this author: "Hombre con minotauro en el pecho", "Borges y el ultraísmo", "Tesoro viviente" and "La fuga de Tadeo", from the point of some narrative resources that allow you to display the various facets of this critical development where there are exposed mechanisms of legitimation, conservation and consecration within the intellectual field.

Palabras llave : Realism; irony; critique; legitimation; intellectual field.