The sea as stage in the literary work of Manuel Sánchez Mármol, Mexican writer and promoter of the realistic novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Abstract

This article is an approach to the narrative work of the Mexican writer Manuel Sánchez Mármol. The purpose is to find communicating vessels between his maritime tales and other universal literature stories where the sea is shown to the reader as the grand stage. Through his maritime tales, Voyage of Boyfriends (1905), Oceánida (1904) and Tunnel number 12 (1904), this approach is sought out on the narrative of Sánchez Mármol, novelist and storyteller that was not valued in his time and was ignored by many literary critics (Sol, 2011). Sánchez Mármol was considered a realistic writer and according to his few critics, he could be placed among Benito Pérez Galdós and José Tomás de Cuellar. Therefore, another purpose of this article is to bring to the table the name of a writer that has been scarcely studied, so that through reading and analyzing his works, his memory can be recuperated.