El legado de Amparo Dávila en narradoras mexicanas actuales

In the following pages, we will try to track the presence of some features found in Amparo Davila´s stories (1928-2020) in the works of three Mexican writers: Cristina Rivera Garza (1964), Cecilia Eudave (1968) and Guadalupe Nettel (1973). First, we will consider the different opinions that some contemporary Mexican writers have about the Zacatean author and what is especially remarkable about her writing. Then we will explore the peculiar use that Amparo Davila made of the fantastic genre and its different themes and how that was a crucial influence on the works that we are to deal with in this essay.  The Davilian legacy is expressed in many different ways, as we are to analyse, in La cresta de Ilion (2002) by Rivera Garza, in Eudave's short stories and also in her novella Bestiaria vida (2008) and El huesped by Nettel (2006) All three of them try to grasp Davila's use of ambiguity, her unique atmospheres, the hibridity of her discourse, and some recurring issues in Fantasy, such as the doppelganger and the idea of diversity whe it comes to tackle identity.