Self-sacrificing for the sake of others, saving oneself throught art. Salarrúe’s “El Cristo negro”
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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i18.158Abstract
Literature has never been unawareof ethics. The first one is rooted in the second, and it takes from it the oxygen needed to build fictional worlds full of sense. However, some works are orchestrated around the problem of a complex relationship with ethics, like the case of this legend, oral in its origins and brought to highbrow literature by Salvador Arrué, Salarrué, the Salvadoran writer that puts the whole conflict nested in the idea of sacrificing one’s life to save the lives of others at stake. ¿Is it possible to have a new Christ on Earth without him turning out to be a demon? This seems to be the question behind the story told by him. Evil and Good merge together, and they become impossible to distinguish from one another. The writer finds the last redemption, the true chance for salvation, in the loving gaze of art, the only one he ́s able to understand.References
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