Loving experience, catastrophe and miracles in The revelation of water

Abstract

This text analyzes The Revelation of Water, a novel by the Chihuahuan author Martha Estela Torres Torres. The analysis is based on the classical rhetorical notions of Inventio, Dispositio and Elocutio, to which are added some considerations of the context. Thus, an interpretation is offered that starts from the main intrinsic elements of the work, tries to attend to the literary and cultural tradition in which it is produced and, from an academic perspective, values its characteristics, the themes it deals with and other narrative successes. It is concluded that the novel revives elements of the wonderful real; although its measured discourse, its comprehensive view of the different social explanations and the journalistic strategy that configures its large third part make it a neorealist work.