Abstract
In this article, I analyse the moral systems of the protagonists of Vallejo’s La Virgen de los Sicarios. The protagonists have different in-group and out-group moralities, especially when considering violence in Colombian society. Fernando, the narrator and main character, shifts his out-group morality from a civilized to a ‘sicariato’ one due to the influence of his sicario-lovers. This means that he gradually approves of violence against other people. I hypothesize that this changing morality is a feature of the sicaresque genre. I also present prototypical standard features as tools for inclusion of novels within the sicaresque. Future analyses will show if changing moralities is one of the characterizing features of this genre.
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