Abstract

MUSITANO, Julia. A great man's harangues. An image of the self by Fernando Vallejo. CELEHIS [online]. 2014, n.28, pp.49-64. ISSN 2313-9463.

Aristóteles was the first, in the XXX Problemata, who put together the clinic idea of melancholy and the platonic conception of furor. That allowed recognizing the melancholic people as outstanding and genius. It was all about understanding and justifying the man who was great because his passions were more violent than those of vulgar men, and because, in despite of that, they were sufficiently strong to reach harmony from excesses. As a good melancholic genius, Vallejo has the certitude that he is a genius. Not only he possesses an ultra lucid conscious and a learning and knowledge dynamic, but also he mixes unconnected materials as the intellectuals of the decadentism. This paper would develop, in an article "Un siglo de soledad" published in Peroratas, the way in which Vallejo builds an eccentric and peculiar author's image that takes pleasure in the excess and the accumulation.

Keywords : Fernando Vallejo - melancholy - accumulation - excess.

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