Pito Pérez

Mexican Middleman

Bibliographic Data

ID12088111
AuthorsRobert Stone (0000-0001-6518-3408, United States Naval Academy, corresponding author), Robert S Stone (United States Naval Academy)
Year2005
Volume21
Issue2
Pages369-402
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0742-9797 • E-ISSN: 1533-8320
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/msem.2005.21.2.369
OpenAlexW2008032291
LanguagePT
References cited16

This article situates the popular picaresque novel La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1938) in its context of literary and social history. As a comic text, the novel engages readers of all kinds in an attempt to foment change, despite the shortcomings of the protagonist and the revolution through which he lives. The work ensures the survival of the pícaro in Mexico as a sardonic hero who, nonetheless, will not wholly abandon revolutionary ideals and, indeed, wishes to pass these on to the growing middle class that spawned both Pito Pérez and his more fortunate author, J. Rubén Romero. Este artículo sitúa la conocida novela picaresca La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1938) en su contexto de historia literaria y social. Como texto cómico, la novela atrae a toda clase de lectores en su intento de fomentar el cambio, a pesar de las fallas del protagonista y del contexto revolucionario en el que vive. La obra asegura la supervivencia del pícaro mexicano como un héroe sarcástico que, no obstante, no abandonará los ideales revolucionarios y, de hecho, desea transmitirlos a la creciente clase media que dio luz a ambos Pito Pérez y su autor más afortunado, J. Rubén Romero

Art · Comics · Context (archaeology · HERO · Humanities · Literature · Sociology · Cinema History and Criticism · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Literary and Cultural Studies

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