Abstract

ORTIZ CARABALLO, Carlos Daniel. The idealization of love and woman in The Vortex. Folios [online]. 2008, n.28, pp.3-12. ISSN 0123-4870.

This essay is a sociocritic analysis of the novel La vorágine (1924), written by José Eustasio Rivera (Neiva, 1888-New York, 1928). Its objective is to elucidate one of the existent axiological position presented in this literary work, specifically, the romantic one (Girard, 1963). The reading of the text is organized in two parts: first, the idealization of love, where it is established the construction of the romantic position taken in terms of love, the socioeconomic values of modernity and capitalism, taking into account the hero of the novel and the idealization of a woman, according to the women characters and their ideological voice.

Keywords : Fabulous hero; romantic axiological position; romantic love; unhopeful axiological position; social duty; chronotopo of the idyllic novel; female characters.

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