https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/issue/feedEl Pez y la Flecha. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias2025-09-04T04:48:07+00:00Norma Angélica Cuevas Velascoelpezylaflecha@uv.mxOpen Journal Systems<p>ISSN: 2954-3843<br />Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias<br />Universidad Veracruzana, México</p>https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/237Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot (2023). La literatura de fin de siglo en lengua española: modernismo y generación del 98 (de Rubén Darío y Valle Inclán, Azorín y Rodó).2025-08-29T05:06:33+00:00Josué Francisco González Jassí franciscogjassi@gmail.com<p><strong>Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot (2023). <em>La literatura de fin de siglo en lengua española: modernismo y generación del 98 (de Rubén Darío y Valle Inclán, Azorín y Rodó)</em>. g. Gómez & D. Hernández Suárez (Trads.). 189 pp. isbn: 9786078969005. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana.</strong></p> <p>A partir de la donación del archivo personal de Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot a la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, en 2005, ha sido necesaria una intensa labor editorial para publicar la obra inédita del pensador boyacense. Como continuación de esta empresa, Diana Hernández Suárez y Juan Guillermo Gómez han tenido a bien la edición y traducción de las lecciones universitarias (<em>Vorlesungen</em>) que Gutiérrez Girardot dictó para el curso <em>Hispanische Literatur um die Jahrhundertwende</em> en la Universidad de Bonn. Publicado finalmente como libro de ensayos, <em>La literatura de fin de siglo en lengua española: modernismo y generación del 98 (de Rubén Darío y Valle Inclán, Azorín y Rodó)</em> apuesta por restaurar la intención didáctica de las lecciones universitarias, dotándolas de la estructura y claridad necesarias para el lector contemporáneo.</p> <p> </p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/238Alejandro Lámbarry. (2024). El viajero. Sergio Pitol (1963-1988)2025-08-29T05:08:54+00:00David Oliva Lópezdaoliva@uv.mx<p><strong>Alejandro Lámbarry. (2024). <em>El viajero. Sergio Pitol (1963-1988)</em>. 298 pp. isbn: 9781469684536. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press/Editorial A Contracorriente.</strong></p> <p>Alejando Lámbarry nos presenta su tercera entrega en el género biográfico. Después de las que dedicó a Augusto Monterroso y Jorge Ibargüengoitia, ha elegido en esta ocasión a Sergio Pitol como protagonista. El <em>modus operandi</em> parece ser el mismo de las anteriores: reconstruir una figura a través de la consulta de los archivos personales de la Universidad de Princeton, testimonios de sus amistades, correspondencia, crítica y estudios literarios. En el caso de Pitol, destaca por ajustarse también a la poética del autor: presenciamos la vida de un artista que ocupa sus experiencias personales para la creación de una obra que nos será explicada por el narrador, tal y como sucede en gran parte de sus textos, como en la novela a la que dedicó quince años: <em>Juegos florales</em>.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/240Danira López Torres y Grecia Monroy Sánchez (Coords. y eds.). (2025). Antonio Vanegas Arroyo y las funciones de la literatura popular impresa2025-08-29T05:25:41+00:00V. Briseida Castro Pérezcastro.briss@gmail.com<p><strong>Danira López Torres y Grecia Monroy Sánchez (Coords. y eds.). (2025). <em>Antonio Vanegas Arroyo y las funciones de la literatura popular impresa</em>. 274 pp. isbn: 978-607-2627-19-2. San Luis Potosí: El Colegio de San Luis.</strong></p> <p>El estudio del legado de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1880-1917) ha cobrado un interés creciente entre los investigadores de la cultura popular en México. Su vasta producción editorial constituye una fuente invaluable de análisis, no sólo por la magnitud del acervo conservado y la riqueza de sus contenidos, sino también gracias al desarrollo de repositorios digitales, que han facilitado el acceso a estos materiales, ampliando así las posibilidades de investigación y preservación del patrimonio impreso. Muestra fehaciente de ello es <em>Antonio Vanegas Arroyo y las funciones de la literatura popular impresa</em>, que, resultado del tercer encuentro del Seminario Impresos Populares de Vanegas Arroyo, ofrece un conjunto de estudios que abordan la producción de esta casa editora.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/232Body, gender and illness in the autobiographical narrative of Carlota O’Neill2025-08-29T04:21:17+00:00Adriana Vilariño Amadoa.vilarino1@udc.es<p>The sick female body is permeated by symbols that determine its experience. It is considered inferior and alien to the norm, so the social reality experienced by sick women differs from others. Therefore, it is of interest to study the experiences of these individuals, whose gender and condition as sick people make them doubly subaltern. To this end, Carlota O’Neill’s autobiographical work, <em>Una mujer en la guerra de España </em>(2003), is highly relevant as it provides insight into the experience of a sick Republican woman during the Spanish Civil War.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/233Bolaño in Agony + the Body in Trance = 26662025-08-29T04:30:20+00:00Julio Alberto Bejarano Hernándezalberto.bejarano@caroycuervo.gov.co<p>The novels <em>Fruta podrida </em>(2007), <em>Sangre en el ojo</em> (2012) and <em>Sistema nervioso</em> (2018) by Chilean author, Lina Meruane, can be read as a trilogy that problematizes corporality and which stories set a dichotomy between the healthy and the diseased bodies. Nevertheless, <em>Sistema nervioso</em> represents a change in the writer’s project. This article proposes an analysis on how illness defines family relationships, because all of the family members are sick. The novel’s proposed reading allows us to make connections with the author’s non-fiction works <em>Volverse Palestina/Volvernos otros</em> (2014) and <em>Palestina por ejemplo</em> (2018), in which Meruane discuss one of the main topics of her work: the identity.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/239Nervous System: An Indissoluble Bond between Identity and Pathology2025-08-29T05:17:00+00:00Mara Itzel Medel Villarmaramedel2709@gmail.com<p>The novels <em>Fruta podrida </em>(2007), <em>Sangre en el ojo</em> (2012) and <em>Sistema nervioso</em> (2018) by Chilean author, Lina Meruane, can be read as a trilogy that problematizes corporality and which stories set a dichotomy between the healthy and the diseased bodies. Nevertheless, <em>Sistema nervioso</em> represents a change in the writer’s project. This article proposes an analysis on how illness defines family relationships, because all of the family members are sick. The novel’s proposed reading allows us to make connections with the author’s non-fiction works <em>Volverse Palestina/Volvernos otros</em> (2014) and <em>Palestina por ejemplo</em> (2018), in which Meruane discuss one of the main topics of her work: the identity.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/228Questioning Writing: Cancer in Contemporary Hispanic American Poetry2025-08-29T03:23:34+00:00Isaura Contreras Ríosisaura.contrerarios@utsa.edu<p>This paper addresses the approach to cancer from a poetic perspective in the works of contemporary Latin American authors, including Victoria Guerrero Peirano, Rocío González, Ethel Krauze, Enrique Lihn, Gonzalo Millán, Margarita Paz Paredes, Jaime Sabines, Héctor Viel Temperley, and José Watanabe. Poems about cancer can be read as hybrid writings, at the intersection of literature and autobiography. This leads to a conception of poetry as an ethical and political gesture. In this article, illness questions the limits of language to articulate the body and pain.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/229Reverences on the Margins of Illness: Pablo Pérez’s Tribute to Severo Sarduy2025-08-29T03:29:34+00:00Rodney Lebrón Riverarlrivera@princeton.edu<p>This essay examines <em>Un año sin amor</em>, by Argentine writer Pablo Pérez, as a tribute to Severo Sarduy, a pioneer of seropositive writing in Latin America. Focusing on the novel’s fragmentary, personal diary structure, the analysis explores its intertextual dialogue with Sarduy’s works, particularly <em>El Cristo de la Rue Jacob</em> (1987) and <em>Pájaros de la playa</em> (1993). Through this engagement, <em>Un año sin amor</em> (1998) emerges as a critical act of writing that adopts a reverential stance toward Sarduy’s literary legacy. Additionally, the essay incorporates other works by Pérez, such as <em>El mendigo chupapijas</em> (2005), <em>Querido Nicolás</em> (2016), and <em>Positivo. Crónicas con vih</em> (2018), to further contextualize its argument within the broader scope of his writing.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 El Pez y la Flecha. Revista de Investigaciones Literariashttps://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/234Clinical History and Terminal Lyric in Operación al cuerpo enfermo by Sergio Loo2025-08-29T04:37:11+00:00Miguel Ángel Gómez Reyesdance.little.liar1212@gmail.com<p>This article examines <em>Operación al cuerpo enfermo</em> (2015) by Sergio Loo as a unique instance of terminal lyric poetry, which centers on illness and death. Its goal is to challenge the autobiographical interpretation of the work by highlighting its hybrid structure that blends essay, poetry, narrative, and especially clinical case history. Using a comparative methodology, it explores how Loo’s strategies relate to similar Mexican texts. The findings show that illness is treated as a linguistic event, undermining the notion of a unified self. The article concludes that the work goes beyond personal testimony to become an aesthetic exploration of the sick body as a textual and social construction.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/235The Performative Aspect of Diary Writing: Literary Representation of Illness in Mario Levrero and Alejandra Pizarnik2025-08-29T04:48:30+00:00Pablo Ottonelloottonello@uchicago.edu<p>This article explores the performative aspect of diary writing as it relates to the representation of the sick body in <em>La novela luminosa</em>, by Mario Levrero, and the <em>Diarios</em>, of Alejandra Pizarnik. The work addresses the compositional paradox surrounding the concept of failure: the diary exists thanks to a discomfort or “lack” –understood as “failure”. At times, this failure is related to health. The aim is to reflect on the ambivalence surrounding the diary as a tool that provokes both relief and despair when used to record psycho-physical ailments.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/236Reverences on the Margins of Illness: Pablo Pérez’s Tribute to Severo Sarduy2025-08-29T04:54:29+00:00Rodney Lebrón Riverarlrivera@princeton.edu<p>This essay examines <em>Un año sin amor</em>, by Argentine writer Pablo Pérez, as a tribute to Severo Sarduy, a pioneer of seropositive writing in Latin America. Focusing on the novel’s fragmentary, personal diary structure, the analysis explores its intertextual dialogue with Sarduy’s works, particularly <em>El Cristo de la Rue Jacob</em> (1987) and <em>Pájaros de la playa</em> (1993). Through this engagement, <em>Un año sin amor</em> (1998) emerges as a critical act of writing that adopts a reverential stance toward Sarduy’s literary legacy. Additionally, the essay incorporates other works by Pérez, such as <em>El mendigo chupapijas</em> (2005), <em>Querido Nicolás</em> (2016), and <em>Positivo. Crónicas con vih</em> (2018), to further contextualize its argument within the broader scope of his writing.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/230María Luisa Puga’s Therapeutic Word in Diario del dolor2025-08-29T03:58:03+00:00Gabriela Trejo Valenciagabriela.trejo@colsan.edu.mx<p><em>Diario del dolor</em> (2004) is an autopathography that captures a transformative journey as Puga moves from identifying as an arthritis patient to embracing her identity as a writer. The aim of this article is to show how the author discovered a new way of engaging with her creative work. The analysis begins with an examination of her last journal as a therapeutic outlet. Although her pain persisted, at least it was written down. Ultimately, this article will illustrate how Puga’s writerly consciousness underwent a paradoxical renewal achieved through the personification of pain.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/231“Illness Is the Spirit”: Juan García Ponce and Disability2025-08-29T04:13:19+00:00Miguel Domínguez Rohanmdominguezr@wm.edu<p>This essay analyzes Juan García Ponce’s relationship with disability following the onset and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in the 1960s. It examines his distancing from the medicalization of this experience through certain metaphorical uses of illness derived from Romanticism, to create a discursive space from which to carry out his literary practice during the second half of his life. Through an analysis of literary correspondence, unpublished diaries, interviews, and essays, this process of negotiation by the Mexican author is reconstructed –one that critics have not yet considered.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://elpezylaflecha.uv.mx/index.php/elpezylaflecha/article/view/227Nota editorial2025-08-29T03:18:20+00:00Isaura Contreras Ríosisaura.contrerarios@utsa.edu<p>En la literatura latinoamericana, la escritura autobiográfica de la enfermedad dialoga con una renovada visión del pensamiento contemporáneo que busca recuperar y poner en escena el cuerpo y sus abyecciones. Desde esta perspectiva, es posible pensar en la autofiguración del escritor enfermo como ser sufriente cuya subjetividad y sentido de identidad son vulnerados. Ante la enfermedad, la escritura se convierte en una práctica que hace inteligibles los procesos físicos y psicológicos que acompañan ese estado, coyuntura privilegiada para la observación del cuerpo que se transforma y espacio de creación de un nuevo lenguaje.</p>2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025