The Neo-Baroque expression of death in Spanish-American literature

This paper offers an interpretation of Fernando del Paso''s second novel Palinuro de México. Neo-baroque as a literary style and death as a thematic object are the starting points. The passages of the novel used are limited to those that deal with the theme of death. In the interpretation the aim is to demonstrate how death is constantly present in the novel and in addition it is one of the fundamental spheres along with life sleep and language. Through the neo-baroque expression the work acquires a different meaning close to the cosmogonic models on which the Baroque is based as a cultural model; thus in Palinuro de México we find one of the elements that offers a new look at death from the neo-baroque language in which the resurrection the triumph of the imago survives in the face of it.