Education and diversity: Interpretation of El huésped, by Guadalupe Nettel

Abstract

This article is product of research about pertinence of literary hermeneutics in formation of education professionals. This orientation of Reading literary texts is considered suitable to be applied as a philosophical frame of educational purposes. It means to be interest for pay attention to the question for the human been that we pursue with Reading. The products of research consist in critical Works about literary narrative texts in order to create Reading proposals that support the construction of values with cultural mediation of literary narrative. The specific task for reflection is the manifestation of sensibility to diversity. In the analysis work the purpose is comprehension of blindness circumstances as an ontological diversity with social and cultural affections for whose lives in this circumstance. The narrative work that is interpreted from this perspective, corresponds to the novel El huésped by Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel. The work of analysis consists in comprehension of transformation that suffers the character Ana in her process of visual lost that involves her in a marginal world, where persons live in this diversity. The methodological process in speech analysis follows signature concept from hermeneutics of Giorgio Agamben. Also it is applied narrative concept from hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur, in following the character path.