Economía poética de Pedro Páramo: de la Revolución a la Cristiada

Abstract

All the work of Juan Rulfo is a model of brevity. The narrative discourse of Pedro Páramo illustrates the efficiency, not only brevity, but poetic economy, understanding this as the art of projecting meaning by means of limitation in the employment of resources for meaning. All of the seventy fragments which make up said discourse are examples of this type of economy, but among them there is one which stands out: fragment 67 which recounts, in fourteen replicas (like a sonnet), the fourteen years running from the consolidation of Carranzism in 1915 until the cristero war ended in 1929. In light of its economy, the alluded to fragment is examined.