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GOMEZ VARGAS, Christian Guillermo. Modern subjectivity and nihilism. A philosophical reading of the narrative of Juan Rulfo. Rev. filos. Univ. Iberoam. [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.153, pp.124-168.  Epub 17-Maio-2024. ISSN 2954-4602.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rdf.v54i153.143.

The present article discusses a philosophical reading of Rulfo’s narrative, specially the story “Luvina”. Making special emphasis in the interpretation of history and antihistoricism, following Nietzsche’s critique. All this with the objective of critically exploring the ideals of the modern figure of progress. Furthermore, the article examines the concept of history, according to Benjamin, taking as its starting point the conception against the hegemonic speeches in occident’s historic narration. We understand this description in terms of catastrophe. Therefore, this analysis functions as a strategy to bring back to memory all the absent victims of the so-called progress. Victims that we find in the forgotten and uprooted characters of the Mexican rural modernity of the mid-20th century, depicted by Rulfo. All these characters portray an anguished subjectivity of post-revolutionary Mexico, who tend to turn towards their own interiority rather than dealing with the absurdity of a world that becomes less human each day.

Palavras-chave : anguished subjectivity; history; nihilism; uprootedness; progress; modernity; temporality.