Abstract

SOLIS ONTIVEROS, José Leopoldo III  and  GUTIERREZ PINA, Claudia L.. The terror and the sinister in “La puerta” by Salvador Elizondo. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.148-167.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.434.

Several have been the authors, in Mexican literature, who have dared to explore different literary genres and the development of unconventional themes within their work. Without a doubt, Salvador Elizondo is one of those writers. His work explores a vast number of genres ranging from novels, short stories and poetry, to essays and criticism, as well as various themes that have been commonly studied by literary criticism, such as time, eroticism, death, the oriental as well as others less explored such as the terror and the sinister. These last two topics are the ones that are proposed to be analyzed in this work, in which the horror-sinister relationship is considered as the axis of the narrative configuration and of the disturbing effect, of the story “La puerta” belonging to the book Narda o el verano (1966). This analysis takes as support, mainly, the theoretical proposals of Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jentsch and Eugenio Trias in relation to the sinister, and of H.P. Lovecraft and Noël Carrol in relation to terror.

Keywords : madness; double; mirror.

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