The intellectual world and the ivory tower: an approach to four stories by Enrique Serna

Abstract

In the recent Mexican literature, the narrative voice by EnriqueSerna stands out for its marked critical nature toward strategies of power presentin the cultural field. The irony and formulations close to the absurd shape a culturaldiscomfort present in stories, novels and essays. In this work we reviewedfour stories by this author: “Hombre con minotauro en el pecho”, “Borges y elultraísmo”, “Tesoro viviente” and “La fuga de Tadeo”, from the point of somenarrative resources that allow you to display the various facets of this criticaldevelopment where there are exposed mechanisms of legitimation, conservationand consecration within the intellectual field.