José Enrique Rodó en tres ensayistas mexicanos : Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsiváis y Enrique Krauze

Abstract

This paper looks into the opinions of three outstanding xxth century Mexican writers on the contribution of Jose Enrique Rodó to contemporary Latin American thought. The corpus studied is basically the prologue of Carlos Fuentes for the English edition of Ariel (1988), the essay Aires de familia (2000) written by Carlos Monsiváis, and Enrique Krauze’s “Jose Enrique Rodó” (in Redentores, 2011). The text will help us understand the hardships arielism has endured in contemporary Mexico in a thrust to survive in the turmoil of contemporary literary criticism.