Lo bello, lo sublime y lo siniestro en “Fragmento de un diario”, de Amparo Dávila

Abstract

The work of Mexican writer Amparo Davila (b. 1928) has been read and studied intermittently over the past sixty years. Thanks to the publication of her Cuentos reunidos (2009) by Fondo de Cultura Economica, the author from the State of Zacatecas, has obtained new readers, as national and international critics have once again taken an interest in her narrative. However, little has been done to explore the link between her stories and philosophy. This work proposes to establish a dialogue between "Fragment of a Diary", one of the tales included in Tiempo destrozado (1959), and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Longino and Eugenio Trias about the beautiful, the sublime, and the sinister, also considering Sigmund Freud's contributions about the uncanny.