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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2007-2538</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Valenciana]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Valenciana]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-2538</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Guanajuato, Departamentos de Filosofía y de Letras Hispánicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-25382010000200091</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La locura está en los ojos de quien la mira: los personajes de Sergio Pitol]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Montelongo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alfonso]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de las Américas  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puebla ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2010</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2010</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>3</volume>
<numero>6</numero>
<fpage>91</fpage>
<lpage>108</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-25382010000200091&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-25382010000200091&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-25382010000200091&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Luego de repasar las dificultades para definir la locura en cualquier ámbito y enfatizar que suele ser identificada por un observador y no por el paciente mismo, el artículo se enfoca en cinco tipos de desorden mental que manifiestan los protagonistas de la narrativa, el ensayo y los escritos autobiográficos de Sergio Pitol: la simple estulticia, el discurso imprevisible, el delirio, la memoria que intenta reconstruir el pasado y la verborrea como síntoma de apocamiento. Los dos últimos juegan un papel fundamental en la obra del autor veracruzano.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract After briefly reviewing the difficulties to define madness in any field and stressing that this condition is usually identified by an observer, no by the patient himself, the paper focuses on five types of mental disorder displayed by main characters in Sergio Pitol&#8217;s fictional, essayistic and autobiographical writings: plain stupidity, unpredictable speech, delirium, memory trying to reconstruct the past, and verbiage as a symptom of low self-esteem. The latter are essential to Pitol&#8217;s work.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sergio Pitol]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[caracteres literarios]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sergio Pitol]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[madness]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[literary characters]]></kwd>
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