Eros and Thanatos, essential components in the tales by German Espinosa

Abstract

In this essay it is drawn the relation between death and eroticism presented in the stories of Germán Espinosa. The erotic feeling that means the imminence of the end of times, Thánatos’ idea as the central theme of difference between human being and his animal environment, holiness expresses in denial and brought to life in the mockery of prohibitions; these are one of the main vectors of the work of this Colombian writer. This is why voluptuousness of daily characteristics of denied instinct establishes the dimensions of the characters half way of the profile which belongs to the world that doesn’t deserve to be told and the big dimension of the horrible inside that justifies what provoke fiction, horrible inside described as a legend: death which can seduce because of denied skin, substance of imagination that when is exposed it will be the shine of the inevitable blade that goes into action. Heads rolling around and endings of stories that doesn’t mean a sentence but maybe the finish of an anguish touched by a carnival that doesn’t belong to literature.