El indio en los relatos mexicanos de Pere Calders
- 1 Universidad de La Rioja, España
ISSN: 1696-7410
Année de publication: 2015
Número: 17
Pages: 167-182
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Laberintos: revista de estudios sobre los exilios culturales españoles
Résumé
In 1967, Pere Calders published a short novel localised in Mexico and entitled Here lies Nevares, name from which the main title of a larger compilation of tales was inferred. In this article, some of the stories of this volume are analyzed: People of the high valley, on the one hand, and Here lies Nevares, on the other. Attention is drawn to the character sketch, as well as to the way in which the events and unforeseen incidents suffered by the mestizos and the Mexican Indian are reflected; the realistic and apparently cruel and aloof tone used at the narrative level is broached. Pere Calders, even from his strictly distant narrator’s perspective, takes seriously the peculiar and ancient Indian’s nature.