Rebeldía existencialista en “Las mariposas” de María Luisa Puga

Authors

  • Carmen Patricia Tovar Oberlin College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i3.6366

Abstract

In “Las mariposas”, considered by many María Luisa Puga’s best short story, we meet a rebel who is not satisfied with the turns his life story took. Jailed in a military hospital and believing he is about to be tortured to death to get information out of him, he feels pressed to resolve his questions and starts writing to make sense of his decisions, his nonconformity and to come up with something that would give his death some kind of meaning. In this essay, we ask, as Albert Camus did in The Rebel, if a just rebel can transform into a bloodthirsty assassin.

Published

2022-06-04

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