Descripción:
Mankind's history have a long directory of brutal acts committed against other human beings and Nature. Written records of that violence include to Literature. The history of Ciudad Juarez also shows barbarian measures in the present time. It is necessary to ask to ourselves: Which is the reason of that? How much useful is for us to read about such behavior in literary texts? Authors like Aristotle, Bertold Brecht, and Eduardo Galeano deal with the social purpose of Literature. Aristotle alludes to the catharsis. Brecht makes an allusion to the spacing to exert an analysis and rational action. On the other hand, Galeano says that everything in Literature is social. The human being is a product of his history; then, the writers of Ciudad Juarez are just fruits of their context. They engage in a dialog with the speech of the city and they shape subjects, in their works, that worry to the juarenses. Stories that Literature counts to us could be helpful, because they show those constant and universal principles of the human nature we share. Thus, we are able to know which the violent actions that frequently are committed, to think about them and to look for more rational forms of coexistence.