Humor and a sense of abandonment in El hombre crucigrama by Roberto Abad

Humor and a sense of abandonment in El hombre crucigrama by Roberto Abad

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i36.836

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This article analyzes the work El hombre crucigrama by Mexican writer and musician Roberto Abad, based on theoretical approaches of authors such as Pere Ballart, Roman Ingarden, Elizabeth Sánchez Garay, Albert Camus or Elí de Gortari, with the purpose of exposing the way in which elements as the absurd and irony are appropriated by the author and rewritten in his discourse. In Abad's work, the aforementioned concepts are expanded and re-signified. The book-art is approached as an object, which also becomes a vehicle for the extra-linguistic link between reader and work. This allows a greater immersion of the receiver with its contents. In this way, the various elements that make up El hombre crucigrama allow conceptualizing an existential vision of man and his actions in the face of problems that surpass him, such as absurdity, abandonment, loneliness and death.

Keywords: irony; absurd; humor; subversion; playfulness

Author Biography

Salvador Aquinez Cázares, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Jesús Salvador Aquinez Cázares (Nuevo León, 1984), has a B.D. in Hispanic Literature and a B. A. in Music and Instrumentalist from the UANL and a Master of Literary and Musical Studies with Distinction from the IMNRCM. He has worked as a literary critic in publications in magazines such as Levadura, as well as in conferences and lectures in museums and radio stations. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at CEMARTH in Monterrey.

 

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2025-07-01

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Aquinez Cázares, S. (2025). Humor and a sense of abandonment in El hombre crucigrama by Roberto Abad: Humor and a sense of abandonment in El hombre crucigrama by Roberto Abad. Valenciana, 18(36), 77–100. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i36.836

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No. 36 (2025): Valenciana, julio-diciembre 2025

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