The symbolic significance of the characters in El Amante de Janis Joplin

Abstract

Within the vast literary production of Élmer Mendoza Valenzuela found a novel entitled The Lover of Janis Joplin, in which we combine the thematic and formal registration in their texts expressing the reality of contemporary México, as are the fields of organized crime, sports, artistic and political world, which unfolded in discursive address the problem of national identity, taking as a cultural object interdiscourse enrolled in the drug trafficking world. So, what this discussion is intended to enrich the analysis and interpretation of the novel in question, to give an account of the represented symbolic significance in the history of the story and its characters which puts us in a position to analyze the speech formants of the novel. Thus, we hold that the deep structure of the text would have to be sought not only in its structural composition and style, but also in response to their symbolic representation provides a number of concerns of an anthropological, which realizes the mythical sense -narrative of the novel, which tells us about the aesthetic value and the text in question from the elements of its symbolic hermeneusis.