Vulcano, de Hilarión Frías y Soto: tres lecturas desde su materialidad

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This article proposes an approach to the short novel Vulcano (1861, 1862, 1882), by the Mexican writer Hilarión Frías y Soto, based on the analysis of the publications in which the three testimonies of said work were disclosed. The hypothesis that arises, supported by the reflections of Roger Chartier and D. F. McKenzie, argues that the reception of the Friasian story was mediated by the material peculiarities of the support (literary supplement, newspaper and feuilleton, respectively), the nature of the contents of each one of the forms (in line with its editorial and ideological tendency) and the profile of the audience to which they were directed. The aim of this work is to speculate on the probable readings that were made of the narration in the different stages of its tradition, in order to contribute a critical view of Vulcano to the recent labor of rescue and edition of the aforementioned author’s prose.