Una biblioteca para la locura y el mal. El viaje del Loco Tafur y los universos plutonianos de Mario Mendoza
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El viaje del loco Tafur, la tercera novela del colombiano Mario Mendoza, es una trilogía sobre la locura y el mal en la sociedad moderna en la que Mendoza reflexiona acerca del lado oscuro del ser humano siguiendo textos clásicos del género, tales como Wakefield de Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Berenice" y "William Wilson" de E. A. Poe y El túnel de Ernesto Sábato. Este artículo da una mirada a la importancia de las perversiones, la locura, la urgencia de destrucción del hombre moderno, la importancia de la ciudad, vista como el hogar de Satanás, como una superación del realismo mágico.
Descriptores: Mario Mendoza, El viaje del Loco Tafur; Hawthorne; Poe; Stevenson; Sábato; Bibliotecas; Locura; Violencia; Ciudad; Satanás.
Abstract: El viaje del loco Tafur (The Journey of Tafur the Crazy), the third novel by the Colombian writer Mario Mendoza, is a narrative trilogy about madness and evil in modern society. The author exposes how Mendoza meditates on man's dark side following classic texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Wakefield"), E. A. Poe ("Berenice" and "William Wilson"), Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Ernesto Sábato (El túnel) (The Tunnel). This article approaches topics like the importance of perversions, madness, the destructive urge of modern man, the importance of the city (seen as Satan's dwelling), and all of it as an overcoming of magical realism.
Key words: Mendoza, Mario; El viaje del Loco Tafur; Hawthorne; Poe; Stevenson; Sábato; Library; Madness; Violence; Damned city; Satan.
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