Abstract:
The present work approaches two short novels of the thirties in Mexico. On the one hand, it shows the hybrid character, in the case of Campobello’s short novel Las manos de mamá, and, consequently, the difficulty of establishing a genre in the traditional way; on the other hand, the resource of the narrative metaphor that Torres Bodet uses in Proserpina rescatada, a mechanism that comes from Marcel Proust and that distances itself from those commonly associated with the lyrical novel.
