Manifestaciones de la excepción. Huellas del imaginario de la ausencia rulfiano en las obras de de Fernanda Melchor, Emiliano Monge y Carlos Reygadas
Loading...
Download
Official URL
Full text at PDC
Publication date
2026
Defense date
26/02/2026
Authors
Advisors (or tutors)
Editors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Citation
Abstract
La presente tesis doctoral, Manifestaciones de la excepción. Huellas del imaginario de la ausencia rulfiano en las obras de Fernanda Melchor, Emiliano Monge y Carlos Reygadas, parte de una inquietud ética y estética relacionada con las múltiples formas de desaparición en el México contemporáneo. La hipótesis de la investigación sostiene que el imaginario de la ausencia en la novela de Rulfo se configura desde un contexto violento marcado por un “estado de excepción” (Agamben), a través del cual la excepcionalidad se manifiesta mediante el vacío y la construcción de mundos paralelos en tensión con la normatividad, generando así espacios de excepción. Esta perspectiva se enmarca en reflexiones contemporáneas sobre los relatos dela desaparición y las configuraciones narrativas de lo irrepresentable, como las planteadas por Gabriel Gatti, quien ha subrayado el vínculo entre violencia, distintas formas de desaparición y formas de narración. En este sentido, la ruptura de la norma se manifiesta como un eje vertebrador del vacío, configurado como una huella de la sinrazón que invade tanto al espacio como a quienes lo habitan. Ello explica que, en Pedro Páramo no haya reglas, sino únicamente la arbitrariedad que distingue a los territorios tomados por la excepción. Asimismo, la hipótesis plantea que el vacío en el imaginario visual se vincula tanto con lo poético como con formas de plasmar la excepcionalidad —de espacios y sujetos— en las fotografías...
This doctoral dissertation, Manifestations of Exception: Traces of the Rulfian Imaginary of Absence in the Works of Fernanda Melchor, Emiliano Monge, and Carlos Reygadas, emerges from an ethical and aesthetic concern linked to the multiple forms of disappearance in contemporary Mexico. The central hypothesis argues that the imaginary of absence in Rulfo’s novel is shaped by a violent context governed by a state of exception (Agamben). This is why exceptionality manifests via the void and the construction of parallel worlds which exist in tension with normativity and produce spaces of exception. This perspective draws upon contemporary reflections on “narratives of disappearance” and configurations of the unrepresentable. In that regard, Gabriel Gatti develops this subject and emphasizes the relationship between violence, various forms of disappearance, and narrative frameworks. In this context, the rupture of normative order becomes a structuring axis of the void, conceived as a trace of unreason that permeates both space and those people who inhabitit. This explains why, in Pedro Páramo, there are no rules—but only the arbitrariness that defines territories shaped by the logic of exception. Additionally, the hypothesis proposes that the void in the visual imaginary is linked to both poetic vision and the visual rendering of exceptionality—of spaces and subjects—through photography...
This doctoral dissertation, Manifestations of Exception: Traces of the Rulfian Imaginary of Absence in the Works of Fernanda Melchor, Emiliano Monge, and Carlos Reygadas, emerges from an ethical and aesthetic concern linked to the multiple forms of disappearance in contemporary Mexico. The central hypothesis argues that the imaginary of absence in Rulfo’s novel is shaped by a violent context governed by a state of exception (Agamben). This is why exceptionality manifests via the void and the construction of parallel worlds which exist in tension with normativity and produce spaces of exception. This perspective draws upon contemporary reflections on “narratives of disappearance” and configurations of the unrepresentable. In that regard, Gabriel Gatti develops this subject and emphasizes the relationship between violence, various forms of disappearance, and narrative frameworks. In this context, the rupture of normative order becomes a structuring axis of the void, conceived as a trace of unreason that permeates both space and those people who inhabitit. This explains why, in Pedro Páramo, there are no rules—but only the arbitrariness that defines territories shaped by the logic of exception. Additionally, the hypothesis proposes that the void in the visual imaginary is linked to both poetic vision and the visual rendering of exceptionality—of spaces and subjects—through photography...
Description
Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, leída el 26/2/2026













