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LAPOUJADE, María Noel. De la perversión a la violencia natural. Península [online]. 2007, vol.2, n.2, pp.121-144. ISSN 1870-5766.

This article examines the concept of violence in some philosophic and literary authors, including the ideas of Hermes Trimegist, Dante Ali ghieri, Voltaire, Sigmund Freud, and especially Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse-Donatien, Marquis de Sade. This article analyses also the meaning of the concept of terror, which, being born from an idea that implies a menace to life, becomes finally a demonstration of how life maintains its autonomy and prevalence, the balance and the cosmic harmony that seem to reduce it existentially.

Palavras-chave : Violence; terror; imagination; metaphor.