La muerte, realidad ansiada. Un análisis de la representación literaria del deseo de morir en dos novelas de Alicia Yánez Cossío: Aprendiendo a morir y Y amarle pude.

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Abstract:The novelistic work of Alicia Yánez Cossío is divided into two great moments: the first one contains literature s own characteristics developed in the great Latin American Boom, and the second one deals with historical themes. Aprendiendo a morir (1997) and Y amarle pude (2000) are the first two historical novels of the Ecuadorian writer in which she recreates the life of Mariana de Jesús (1618-1645), a Catholic saint, and Dolores Veintimilla (1829-1857), a romantic poet, both were recognized women of Ecuador who lived during different times but shared a curious similarity: their desire to have a premature death. The author fictionalizes Mariana and Dolores from her own perspective, calling into question what were the true reasons that influenced them to want their own lives to end and if the story has been veracious in telling what happened to them. From the very subjectivity of the characters, it will be analyzed the reasons behind their desire to die prematurely, because through her literary works, Yánez tries to highlight a more realistic human side of her protagonists, an aspect that the official story has pretended to forget or distort.