#Chac mool por carlos fuentes skin#

In a very indirect way, it can be an allegory to axolotl from Julio Cortazar (very personal opinion). It can mean different things, but the yellow often represents gold and aspects that relate either with royalty or celestial deities, the yellow indian that appeared at the last part of the story can be interpreted like a god that became human or a human deity, but most probably means that the Chac mool took over its host (Filiberto).ġ0.Is this story an allegory? What allegorical readings might be possible? A parasite because it takes over Filiberto’s house, humanity and ultimately his life, but also can be described as a beast with no reason because it attacked and harmed Filiberto without any particular reason but because it needed water to survive, meaning that it depended only on instincts to survive.ĩ.How do you interpret the description of the “indio amarillo” in the final paragraph? What does it mean? Its personality resembles like the one of a parasite and also a human beast with no sense of reason.

#Chac mool por carlos fuentes skin#

The Chac Mool is an indigenous smelly (like cheap lotion) mayan god, with yellow skin and very repulsive looking with a benevolent smile. What is he like physically? What is his personality like? “The Chac Mool knows the proximity in time of an artwork”Ĩ.Describe the Chac mool.

It is a difficult line but it can represent how it was unfair for the Chac Mool to reduce its life in his universe by bringing him to the human world merely for the purpose of being an artist’s trophy, that is why before it says that he wont spare him ( him meaning Le Plongeon). We can interpret Le Plongeon’s act like the man who awakened an angry god from its universe and that brought him to the human’s universe.ħ.What does the line “El sabe de la inminencia del hecho estético” mean? Le Plongeon was a french-american archeologist that studied precolumbian ruins of America, responsible of bringing the Chac Mool statue/sculpture to the world by excavating a structure in Chichen Itza.Ħ.How can we interpret Fuentes’ re-telling of Le Plongeon’s act? It doesn’t coincide in how it is yellow and that it bites its upper lip.ĥ.Who was the Le Plongeon referred to on pg 5? Somehow Carlos’s description of the Chac Mool only resembles in how it is made of stone and that it is an ugly indigenous creature. In the story he is considered a god of thunder and storm, but in reality it is most probably a mayan origin sculpture.Ĥ.How does what you find coincide and not coincide with the descriptions given in Fuentes’ story? What is a Chac Mool? (internet investigation)Ĭhac Mool is a stone sculpture of a humanoid reclining itself with its head turning to the front and supporting its weight by his elbows and back over a disk.

Filiberto might represent a host to the Chac Mool or more precisely the indigenous people that acted as a subject in precolumbian age.ģ. Who is Filiberto? What does he do? What class is he from? What might he represent?įiliberto is the protagonist of the story, the dead of Filiberto marks the beginning, he was a normal guy that worked in an office, but certain events suggests that Filiberto was already going through paranormal events before finding the Chac Mool. Pepe, the friend of Filiberto (which is the protagonist), narrates the story like a witness and also by citing certain parts of Filiberto’s diary.Ģ. Although, magic is never mentioned in the text, some paragraphs make the reader acknowledge that the figure causes this supernatural phenomenons.įor the class of Literature and Power in Latin America, some questions are answered in order to discuss relevant subjects regarding the text and some > events, in hand with some relationship with Octavio Paz’s Labyrinth of Solitude.ġ.Who narrates the story/How is the story narrated? The text presents the encounter of Filiberto with a collection figure of a Pre-columbian statue and how different supernatural events start to develop due to the magic of the figure. Chac Mool is the tale of Pepe, a man that reads his best friend’s diary ( Filiberto).