Maten al león de Jorge Ibargüengoitia : la antisolemne propuesta de un nuevo pasado.

Abstract

Maten al leon, is a novel written in 1969, by Jorge Ibarguengoitia. This thesis will try to establish the present importance of the prevailing 1960's social discourse, when, due to the lack of all critic's voices for direct and transparent expressive causes, it is forced to act out in an indirect manner, in the interstices and gaps offered by the official discourse, using the ironic double voicing, the parody double voicing, the allusion and through other methods of discourse based in the textual implicity, in the unmentioned. Throughout this novel, the author deglorifies the Mexican heroes and calls for an interpretative revision of Mexico's historic past. Furthermore, the thesis analyses Ibarguengoitia's displacement of the governing regime's imposed official memoir and clarifies the way in which the historic assumptions become ideological statements.