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LA "AUSENCIA PRESENTE" DE LA EFERVESCENCIA CONTRACULTURAL EN LA TUMBA DE JOSÉ AGUSTÍN.

The article examines José Agustín's novel "La tumba" as a representation of 1960s Mexican youth counterculture, highlighting the "present absence" of rock and countercultural effervescence within the narrative. Through the character Gabriel Guía, (osé Agustín explores youth's drive toward an alterna...

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Published in:Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana Vol. 50; no. 100; pp. 201 - 231
Main Author: Torres, Alexander
Format: Article
Published: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar 2024
Subjects:
Mexicans
Identity crises (Psychology)
Structural frames
Black holes
Conformity
Bildungsromans
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        The article examines José Agustín's novel "La tumba" as a representation of 1960s Mexican youth counterculture, highlighting the "present absence" of rock and countercultural effervescence within the narrative. Through the character Gabriel Guía, (osé Agustín explores youth's drive toward an alternative world opposed to the dominant bourgeois-capitalist order, reflecting an existential identity crisis that the protagonist attempts to confront without fully integrating into the countercultural "desmadre." Framed within the structure of the "Bildungsroman", the novel presents a failed Bildungsprocess: Gabriel, a youth alienated by his environment, oscillates between the idealistic rebellion embodied by Goethe's Werther and the conformism exemplified by Wilhelm Meister. The article posits that counterculture functions as a "black hole" that absorbs and structures the novel's social and cultural backdrop, demonstrating an unresolved tension between ontological values of vital plenitude and the existential void imposed by capitalism in a modernizing Mexico.
        El artículo examina la novela Lm tumba de José Agustín como una representación de la contracultura juvenil de los años sesenta en México, destacando la "ausencia presente" del rock y la efervescencia contracultural en la narrativa. A través del personaje Gabriel Guía, José Agustín explora el impulso juvenil hacia un mundo alternativo al orden burgués-capitalista dominante, reflejando una crisis de identidad existencial que el protagonista intenta afrontar sin lograr incorporarse plenamente al "desmadre" contracultural. Enmarcada en la estructura del bildungsroman, la novela presenta un bildungsproceso fallido: Gabriel, joven enajenado por su entorno, oscila entre la rebeldía idealista del Werther de Goethe y el conformismo que ejemplifica Wilhelm Meister. El artículo señala que la contracultura funciona como un "agujero negro" que absorbe y estructura el trasfondo social y cultural de la novela, evidenciando una tensión irresuelta entre los valores ontológicos de plenitud vital y el vacío impuesto por el capitalismo en un México en vías de modernización.
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