The construction of lyric-self and nihilism. Baroque notions and Kierkegaard’s philosophy in Nostalgia de la muerte by Villaurrutia.

Abstract

The present work is an interpretation of Nostalgia de la Muerte by Xavier Villaurrutia based
on some interconnected philosophical concepts from the Baroque, Idealism and Nihilism,
notions that conceive the subject (lyrical ego) as locked in itself, without the possibility or
the need of coming into contact with the outside. These notions threaten the integrity of the
subject and support its reconstruction regardless of the outside world. The work of the
mexican poet is influenced by the concepts of horror vacui (Pascal) and the monad (Leibniz);
it shows affinity with the idea of the subject as an absolute and as nothing (Hegel), and with
the dialectical constitution of the subject in times of nihilism (Kierkegaard).