НАСИЉE У ДЕЛИМА КАРЛОСА ФУЕНТЕСА
VIOLENCE IN CARLOS FUENTES’S WORKS S

Summary/Abstract: Given that violence is a form of interactive social relationship, the aim of this paper is to point out the forms of direct, structural and cultural violence in four works by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes – Happy Families, Adam in Eden, Destiny and Desire and The Buried Mirror. Following the analysis, we find that Fuentes confirms the view that violence is immanent to human society and human nature. In his works, the writer points to the cause-and-effect relationship of power, interest and social exclusion, while social policy in Mexico contributes to creating inequality between social groups, instead of helping to solve problems. This further suggests that the social order in Mexico is based on the principle of domination and subordination, which creates a gap between rich and powerful individuals and the majority of the helpless poor population. In these circumstances, the rich are violent because they have power, while the poor are violent because they are powerless. There is a chain of violence in which violence arises from power, and power from violence, thus creating a vicious circle from which it is difficult to escape. In Fuentes’s works, it is evident that violence is caused by the cumulative effect of individual, relational, social factors as well as community factors.

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