Cartucho, de Nelli Campobello : la percepción dislocada de la Revolución mexicana

Abstract

The article examines the poetic narrative of the novel Cartucho. Accounts of the fighting in northern Mexico, by the Durango writer Nellie Campobello. Among other things it explores how the narrative voice, fluctuating between a child’s voice and one that we can place as belonging to one adult. We conclude that the poetry reflects the form of an album of photographs of anonymous people of the Mexican Revolution, the imagesfocus on particular moments of death.