Couto Castillo, the Alleged Aesthetic Sense of Violence and the Oblivion of "Things"

Abstract

From a critical perspective, this article proposed the reading of the stories of the Mexican writer Bernardo Couto Castillo from the development of an aesthetic of violence, which develops from the premises of decadentism as an artistic current from its formulation In nineteenth-century France. It highlights in the reflection the configuration of the woman, as a character and idea, in the stories, where a reification is carried out that empowers and validates the violence that is exerted on the female body. In this way it becomes possible to reflect on the ways in which a divergent discourse (in the context of the end of the world) validates and endorses a negative masculine perspective.