Inclinación y verticalidad en Julio Ruelas, Jesús E. Valenzuela y Manuel José Othón

Abstract

The purpose of this documentary rescue is to observe, and determine, the different inclinations and verticalities present in the illustrations made by Julio Ruelas (1870-1907) to the poems of Manuel José Othón (1858-1906) and Jesús E. Valenzuela (1856-1911). Through an interdisciplinary crossing between philosophy and literary studies, we will determine how evil and perversity make the women present in the poems "Revelación" by Valenzuela and "Noche rústica de Walpurgis" by Othón lean or stand towards, through or for satanic evil, as well as desire, lust and human catastrophe. To do this, we have chosen two totally identical illustrations in Valenzuela's poem: one censored and the other totally explicit. Later, we will study the first image with which the poem “Noche rústica de Walpurgis” opens, which details the celebration of a coven in a landscape of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. In this way, the main objective of this documentary rescue is to analyze, from another perspective, the feminine and masculine-evil postures through a series of illustrations that have been buried not only in archives, but also in the publishing world and the reading public. With this we can encourage new views, in other researchers and readers, towards this documentation so that it can be examined -and visualized- from other academic places.