Abstract

GUZMAN DIAZ, José Manuel. La Ciudad de México en Ojerosa y pintada, de Agustín Yañez, 50 años después. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2010, vol.4, n.8, pp.70-110. ISSN 2007-8110.

This analysis is based in Claude Duchet's socio-criticism theory, and it is intended to provide an answer to the question: How do the central characters and novel narrators describe, live, and represent themselves the space of Mexico City? The approach allows me to show the effectiveness of the novel in order to know Mexico City's reality during the 1950s, and the power of socio-criticism theory for interpreting the book. On the other hand, the novel shows a story of a misleading simplicity in which it is encrypted a vigorous denunciation of the social putrefaction that impregnated the imagery of the country's capital city under the governmental official discourse of the Mexican Revolution. It shows as well the foolish aspiration of modernity of the newly institutionalized bureaucracy in which the trap of new urban myths (power, money, fame, and pleasures) powerfully attracted the impoverished masses that saw migration to the city their only possibility for social advancement. Ojerosa y pintada shows a profound and moving coincidence with history and with the reality of the Mexican capital-city today, even half-a-century after it was published.

Keywords : Ojerosa y pintada; La ciudad de México en su novela; teoría socio-crítica; Agustín Yáñez.

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