Yo despierta, ella dormida. Sor Juana Inés y Juan Rulfo o la nueva condición poética latinoamericana

Abstract

The article examines how Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Juan Rulfo, in dialogue with the literary tradition –especially with the works of Dante, Gongorism and the modern tradition– build a Latin American poetic condition. To that end, it studies the long dream of Sor Juana rise, in First Dream; and Susana San Juan history, in Pedro Páramo. For the analysis, it goes to the concepts of resistance to suffering and the signals to transcendence provided by Maria Zambrano in his reflections on the essential condition of the human. It explains how Sor Juana and Susana San Juan offer such resistance: Sor Juana through the journey of knowledge, the sovereignty of the body, exposing the precariousness of life and the metaphor of the ascent; Susana, through the fall, madness and eroticism. Finally, it plays, in both characters, the appropriation of the signs of transcendence: the revaluation of the moment, of dreams and the creation-destruction of the divine.