Juan Ruljo: The ontological status of violence

We propose an exploration of the levels of violence in the pieces of Rulfo, detained in the family ties (father-mother-son), in the community and in their authorities (people, neighbors, institutions). Violence, an irrational and anti-civilization concept, behaves in the worldview's Rulfo as a descriptor of a mode of order that makes it natural. Through a descriptive-analytical reading, to move to the symbolic interpretation, we distinguish the constant action of a type of immanent violence that does not submit to the statement of the enlightened idea of justice. The critical discourse of literature declares a pre-historical determinism that invalidates the official story.