HISTORY AND LOGOS EPITAPHIOS IN MARIO BENCASTRO

Authors

  • Rafael Lara Martínez , UNAN-Managua

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/hcs.v0i5.4963

Keywords:

Back to origins, utopía, memory recovery

Abstract

The essay reviews the recent novel La mansión del olvido (The Mansion of Oblivion, 2015) by the Salvadoran author Mario Bencastro. It describes the narrator’s journey to his homeland as a return to origins. The arrival involves a search of roots through a descenso ad inferos, by which the hero encounters his dead ancestors. Particularly, he rediscovers his deceased father and reconstructs history to amend past actions in a quest of utopia. The political projects of an ideal future depend on the narrator’s place of recollection where past, present and future happen. Thanks to this retrieval, the narrator invents a new personal and national welfare.

 

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Author Biography

  • Rafael Lara Martínez, , UNAN-Managua

    Antropólogo, lingüista y crítico literario salvadoreño. Doctor en lingüística, Premio Nacional de Cultura 2011, distinguido como “Notable antropólogo de El Salvador”, por la Asamblea Legislativa de su país. Profesor del Departamento de Humanidades del Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo México. Cuenta con importantes publicaciones, siendo una de sus últimas obras, Balsamera bajo la guerra fría. El Salvador-1932. Historia intelectual (San Salvador, 2009).

References

Bencastro, M. (2015) La mansión del olvido. Puerto Santa Lucía, Estados Unidos: Ediciones Puerto Santa Lucía.

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Published

09-10-2017

Issue

Number 5. Year 3. January - June 2015

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

HISTORY AND LOGOS EPITAPHIOS IN MARIO BENCASTRO. (2017). Revista Humanismo Y Cambio Social, 32-35. https://doi.org/10.5377/hcs.v0i5.4963