D.F.: el mural citadino de Emilio Carballido

Abstract

D.F. consists of fifty two one-act plays. From a time-span perspective, the collection begins with El final del idilio, which takes place in 1884, at a school under the strict supervision of Catholic priests and ends with Condominio, well into the twenty-first century, on the effects of over modernization in an urban setting. Its contents’ range can be compared with the great muralists (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros) oeuvre or the city chronicles of Carlos Monsiváis, who has also meticulously reflected on Mexican City’s urban growth as if it was an open text to be decoded. Considering its inhabitants’ discursive registry changes during three different periods — thirty years apart — and taking into account the socio-historical context, we single out Estufas, Un cuento de Navidad, and Difuntos de fin de siglo. (BR, Article in Spanish)