Resumen

CABRERA ESPINOSA, Claudia. The beautiful, the sublime and the sinister in “Fragmento de un diario”, by Amparo Dávila. Valenciana [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.26, pp.7-13.  Epub 22-Dic-2020. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.vi26.498.

The work of Mexican writer Amparo Dávila (b. 1928) has been read and studied intermittently over the past sixty years. Thanks to the publication of her Cuentos reunidos (2009) by Fondo de Cultura Económica, the author from the State of Zacatecas, has obtained new readers, as national and international critics have once again taken an interest in her narrative. However, little has been done to explore the link between her stories and philosophy. This work proposes to establish a dialogue between "Fragment of a Diary", one of the tales included in Tiempo destrozado (1959), and the philosophy of Plato, Longino, Immanuel Kant and Eugenio Trías about the beautiful, the sublime, and the sinister, also considering Sigmund Freud's contributions about the uncanny.

Palabras llave : Beautiful; Sublime; Sinister; Mexican literature; Amparo Dávila.