Disease in the literature of Fin de Siglo Mexican decadentism

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Ana Consuelo Mitlich Osuna

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The term “Fin de Siglo” has been used to express the spiritual crisis that marked the art of the late nineteenth century. The scientific and medical advances together with positive philosophy provided new conceptual tools for the understanding of the individual and society. The new literature and scientific lectures were appropriated by a biological rhetoric to create an imaginary somatic where the concept of disease was used to name immoral conducts. In this context the decadent writers in Mexico who took the idea of disease and madness to express a sensibility and in attitude towards life and art.

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