[en] The principal spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Mexico, 1994), Subcomandante Marcos, devotes himself simultaneously to armed resistance and literature. Some of the stories he wrote are about a speaking, anti-neoliberal beetle, Don Durito de la Lacandona, who presents himself as an emulator of Don Quixote. The plays with Cervantes’ novel allow Marcos to spread his personal model about the hierarchy in the Zapatista guerrilla war, to dismiss the importance of authorship in the ranks of the revolutionary group and to enable every reader, according to his or her own personal horizon of reading, to actualize the figure of the beetle. It has been suggested that the tales about Durito are a pastiche of the novel of chivalry. We can add to this that, in the same way as Cervantes rewrote old genres by parodying them, the texts about Durito, as far as they are a sincere homage to the Quixote, move away from the traditional engaged literature in Latin America.
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Vanden Berghe, Kristine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues et littératures romanes > Langues et littératures espagnoles et hispano-américaines
Language :
Spanish
Title :
The Quixote in the Stories of Subcomandante Marcos
