Close up between the patriarch and the antipatriarch, represented by two characters from Pedro Páramo

Abstract

In this article we will deep into the relationship between two of those characters: Pedro Páramo and Susana San Juan. Confronted, as they are, both are connected through a non-disjunctive oppositional relationship, a character that configures any novel, as Kristeva (1978) affirms: “disjunction frames the novel (…). But the novel is only possible when the disjunction of the two terms can be denied while it is there, confirmed and approved” (p. 167). Consequently, both characters make up two key figures: that of the patriarch, reproduced by Pedro Páramo, and that of the antipatriarch, materialized in Susana San Juan, for whom, simultaneously, their existence will depend on that of the other.