Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio

This essay approaches the reception of the Faustian theme in turnof-the-century Mexico, especially in the case of Amado Nervo, who narratively returned to it on two occasions. He did this under a secularizing direction, in which the duo of Faust and Mephistopheles loses metaphysical altitude and bec...

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Main Author: José Ricardo Chaves
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2010-10-01
Series:Literatura Mexicana
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Online Access:https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/literatura-mexicana/index.php/lm/article/view/660
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description This essay approaches the reception of the Faustian theme in turnof-the-century Mexico, especially in the case of Amado Nervo, who narratively returned to it on two occasions. He did this under a secularizing direction, in which the duo of Faust and Mephistopheles loses metaphysical altitude and becomes more earthly and bourgeois, with mundane preoccupations relating to love and artistic triumph, in which there is no blood contract since the devil gives his services without asking for anything in return.
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spelling doaj.art-093d9a51af5a4c77879244382fa753f02022-12-21T20:33:57ZspaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoLiteratura Mexicana0188-25462448-82162010-10-0121222523410.19130/iifl.litmex.21.2.2010.660660Fausto en tiempos de don PorfirioJosé Ricardo Chaves0Centro de Poética, Instituto de Investigaciones FilológicasThis essay approaches the reception of the Faustian theme in turnof-the-century Mexico, especially in the case of Amado Nervo, who narratively returned to it on two occasions. He did this under a secularizing direction, in which the duo of Faust and Mephistopheles loses metaphysical altitude and becomes more earthly and bourgeois, with mundane preoccupations relating to love and artistic triumph, in which there is no blood contract since the devil gives his services without asking for anything in return.https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/literatura-mexicana/index.php/lm/article/view/660modernismogoetheamado nervotema fáusticoliteratura comparada
spellingShingle José Ricardo Chaves
Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
Literatura Mexicana
modernismo
goethe
amado nervo
tema fáustico
literatura comparada
title Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
title_full Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
title_fullStr Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
title_full_unstemmed Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
title_short Fausto en tiempos de don Porfirio
title_sort fausto en tiempos de don porfirio
topic modernismo
goethe
amado nervo
tema fáustico
literatura comparada
url https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/literatura-mexicana/index.php/lm/article/view/660
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