La emasculación como sacrificio en Los cachorros, de Mario Vargas Llosa

The purpose of this paper is to show that the emasculation, referred to in an elliptical way, suffered by the main character of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The cubs (1967), is part of a sacrifice. The loss of the virile organ may represent the giving of a gift in order to obtain something good: the equalit...

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Autor: López Maguiña, Santiago Humberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad de Lima
Repositorio:ULIMA-Institucional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/5795
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/5795
https://doi.org/10.26439/en.lineas.generales2018.n001.1841
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Vargas Llosa, Mario-Crítica e interpretación
Narrativa peruana
Cuentos peruanos
Amputación traumática
Genitales masculinos
Vargas Llosa, Mario-Criticism and interpretation
Peruvian narrative
Peruvian short stories
Amputation, Traumatic
Genitalia, Male
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to show that the emasculation, referred to in an elliptical way, suffered by the main character of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The cubs (1967), is part of a sacrifice. The loss of the virile organ may represent the giving of a gift in order to obtain something good: the equality of social opportunities in a community of friends. The mentioned actor who was excessively superior to his friends, in all aspects, suffers an amputation, which reduces his abilities and equals them to those of his peers, making the coexistence possible. It should be pointed out that this configuration arises from the analysis of the first part of the novel.