He’s been looking for a reasonable replica of Chac Mool, the Mayan god of rain, which he finds in la Lagunilla. “He also has an affinity for certain forms of indigenous Mexican art. He talks with his friend Pepe about religion and work, where someone died the water red. “Filiberto’s journal begins normally: he meets with a lawyer about his pension and dines in a café. The narrator looks through Filiberto’s briefcase and finds his journal … Filiberto is to be transferred in his coffin via truck, and the narrator is going to deliver him. He seems to know why he drowned – he was tempted to go, then swam too much for his age. In a very personal oppinion I believe it can relate to mexicans respecting their past and culture, the relationship beetween Filiberto and the statue can be represented as the mexican present and past colliding.The narrator begins: Filiberto murió ahogado en Acapulco (191).
It relates directly with mexican history, culture and tradition. Speaking of this story in particular, the hidden meanings could be:ĭo you find any relationship between this story and Paz’ essays? There’s the author main theme but there is also always layers within the story that can only be found paying attention to detail and having another perspective of the lecture.
Yes, I believe that every piece of art (literature, painting, etc) has a hidden meaning in a direct or indirect way. Is this story an allegory? What allegorical readings might be possible? He represents the Chac Mool coming to life in a form of a human sacrificing Filiberto (as in the mayan-toltec rituals) taking his spot in the world. How do you interpret the description of the “indio amarillo” in the final paragraph? What does it mean? He acts like an animal beign very violent with the protegonist despite needing him to survive.
His personality is very dominant, imposing his will above Filiberto’s.
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The Chac Mool has an indigenous figure, bad smell, yellow skin and an ugly face with a weird smile. What is he like physically? What is his personality like? Maybe it was unfair from his point of view that someone would disturb him and transforming him into a discovery or part of a collection but he knew that the event and its consequences were inevitableĭescribe the Chac mool. The «Hecho estético» is the act of being discovered and pulled from his resting place, bringing him to the modern human world. What does the line “El sabe de la inminencia del hecho estético” mean? His discovery ended up cursing Filiberto. Le Plongeon was the one that «woke up» the spirit of the Chac Mool bringing him to the modern human world. How can we interpret Fuentes’ re-telling of Le Plongeon’s act? He made studies of several pre-Columbian archaeological sites, particularly of the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan Peninsula.» «Augustus Le Plongeon was a British-American photographer, antiquarian and archaeologist. Who was the Le Plongeon referred to on pg 5? How does what you find coincide and not coincide with the descriptions given in Fuentes’ story?īoth are scultures from the mexican culture made of stone with a humanoid indigenous figure, they differ mainly in the body position, color and face gestures descibed by Fuentes. «Type of sculpture typical of the Toltec and Mayan-Toltec culture, which represents a reclining human figure, with a container on its belly, which served to place ritual offerings.» What is a Chac Mool? (internet investigation)
He might represent the indian people in the past being opressed from his own religion dying and sacrifying themselfs for their gods. His life changes when he founds a Chac Mool and supernatural things started to happen in his life. Who is Filiberto? What does he do? What class is he from? What might he represent?įiliberto is the protagonist of the story, he was a regular working man that liked collecting ancient figures and idols. The story is narrated in first person from the point of view of Pepe in the present combined with citations from Filiberto’s diary from the past. Who narrates the story/How is the story narrated?
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