Abstract: | Anna Gryglaszewska in the article Mexico haunted by history (“Las
paredes hablan” by Carmen Boullosa) offers an analysis of historiographical
meta-novel written by a contemporary Latin American
writer. Carmen Boullosa, using the theme of haunting of the present
by the past, returns to some dramatic events in the history of
her homeland which had a huge impact on the lives of many generations
of her compatriots. The beginning of the Mexican’s war
for the independence from Spain and the bloody and full of victims
revolution of 1910 are, without a doubt, the facts that have
shaped the Mexican identity. Boullosa, telling the story of an impossible
love three times, reinterpretated of these events, making
them an important background for the action of heroes of this
novel. Gryglaszewska, analyzing the novel, argues that the myth,
understood by Mircea Eliade as a story rooted in the collective unconscious
of humanity, serves as a base for Boullosa’s fiction pivoted
around the history of Mexico. According to the Aztec mythology,
gods, so that the world could exist, demand human blood.
This is the reason why the bloody history of the writer’s homeland
is marked by the stigma of suffering. |