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Nova tellus
Print version ISSN 0185-3058
Abstract
ARROYO CARVAJAL, Yordan. Medea drives her Car to Mía Gallegos’ Mystical Altars. Nova tellus [online]. 2024, vol.42, n.2, pp.147-182. Epub Nov 25, 2024. ISSN 0185-3058. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2024.42.2/000s22x0q118.
In this paper we analyze the formation of complex networks around the mythological figure of Medea in the creative writing processes of the poem “La mujer que conduce el coche” (1983) by the Costa Rican author Mía Gallegos, based on Plato’s Phaedrus and Republic, Euripides’ Medea, the current of mysticism and texts where it was indispensable, as readers, to apply an active horizon. We took into account research from the 20th and 21st centuries about the tradition and reception of the princess of the Colchis in different literatures and supports, interviews conducted with Mía Gallegos, some commentaries by her and others about her work and we made use of terms such as σῆμα, multi-Medea, φάρμακον and καταφυγή to dynamize the analysis. As part of the results, the absence of the sons, Jason and the infanticide introduced by Euripides and the change of the flight to Athens by dawn, are due, in addition to the variant in time and context, to the allegory of Medea as purification after a love breakup in 1981 and its adaptation to mysticism.
Keywords : Medea; Tradition and Reception; Complex Networks; Mía Gallegos; Mysticism.