Rodolfo Usigli as a Reader of Octavio Paz
Rodolfo Usigli and Octavio Paz had an intellectual relationship. This paper analyzes the play Janus is a girl by Usigli, as a dramatic literary work that responds to the ideas of Octavio Paz in The Labyrinth of Solitude in which the use of a mask as a Mexican defense and self-preservation mechanism...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/21512 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21512 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | mask hypocrisy Mexican identity Octavio Paz Rodolfo Usigli máscara hipocresía identidad mexicana |
| Sumario: | Rodolfo Usigli and Octavio Paz had an intellectual relationship. This paper analyzes the play Janus is a girl by Usigli, as a dramatic literary work that responds to the ideas of Octavio Paz in The Labyrinth of Solitude in which the use of a mask as a Mexican defense and self-preservation mechanism to hide from others is proposed. In that way Usigli goes back to those subjects and takes them to staging where he illustrates dynamics of power and violence with examples that Mexicans experience in the family where hypocrisy is a common denominator. |
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