Humor, ironía y subversión en La Calle, Jinete y Yo

Abstract

In this work “La Calle, Jinete y yo” (1975) by Hernán Elizondo Arce (1921) is analyzed from an ideologic point of view, to determine the way the writer states and overthrows the hierarchies related to religious, familiar, and politic codes. Firstly, it starts with a characterization of the contexts in which the novel is created and secondly, the function of the humor and irony as rethorical resources that unstable different power instances is determined. These mechanisms let the authoritarianism, violence and the corruption. These are characteristic features of the icon from a conventional and mediocre society, built by the novel in a way that constitudes an antecedent meaning of the narrative from the next decades, whose emphasis is based in the disenchant subject.