La conciencia artística del joven narrador. Protención y retención en "Los Malabé" de José de la Colina

“The artistic consciousness of the young narrator”. Protention and retention in “Los Malabé” by José de la Colina

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v19i38.874

Abstract

The following article analyses a short story by the Spanish-Mexican writer José de la Colina using two categories: protention and retention. To support these concepts, I refer to the corresponding definitions provided by Wolfgang Iser in The Act of Reading. The story analysed is "Los Malabé," a story from the 1959 book Ven, Caballo Gris. Using the chosen terms, I distinguish some of the text's internal mechanisms, potentially experienced by the reader. This serves, among other things, to explain the presence of queerness and the main character's transvestism. "Los Malabé" is a story that should surprise the reader due to its structure, content, and outcome; all of the above can be explained by considering protention and retention.

Key Words: José de la Colina, Iser, queer literature, short story, Mexican literature

 

Author Biography

Pablo Muñoz Covarrubias, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa

Profesor-Investigador de tiempo completo de la UAM-Iztapalapa. Doctor en Literatura Hispánica por El Colegio de México. Miembro del Área en Semiología Literaria de la Licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas de la UAM-I. Profesor del Posgrado en Teoría Literaria. Candidato al SNI. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentra:

"¿Soy yo esas cifras? Presencia de la Epístola Moral a Fabio en la obra poética de Jorge Guillén". Castilla, 9, 2018, pp. 259-281.

"Dos cuentos de cacería de Arturo Soluto Alabarce", Signos, 2019.

"Dos lecturas de la Epístola Moral a Fabio tras el exilio de 1939", Revista de El Colegio de San Luis, 18, 2019.

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2026-07-01

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Muñoz Covarrubias, P. (2026). La conciencia artística del joven narrador. Protención y retención en "Los Malabé" de José de la Colina : “The artistic consciousness of the young narrator”. Protention and retention in “Los Malabé” by José de la Colina. Valenciana, 19(38), 37–60. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v19i38.874

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No. 38 (2026): Valenciana, julio-diciembre 2026

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