La transfiguración de un relato medieval : El lay de Aristóteles, de Juan José Arreola

Abstract

The article studies Juan José Arreola’s tale “El lay de Aristóteles”, as collected in his book Bestiario, in relation to its model, the French narrative poem Le Lai d’Aristote (xiii century). It exposes succinctly the topics interrelated with the story in its wide medieval diffusion; based on this context, it analyses the peculiarities of Arreola’s recreation, thus emphasizing the subtle and complex transformations of form and meaning that make it a masterly exemplar in Mexican literature of “how to tell again an old story”.