The Woman at the Window: Inés Arredondo. A reading of literary tradition

Abstract

Inés Arredondo (Culiacán, Sinaloa, 1928; Mexico City, 1986) is a writer known for belonging to a generation of brilliant and notable writers promoting the culture of Mexico; a generation constituted during the middle fifties in a cosmopolitan city, full of open air cafes and theaters; a city that welcomed these young writers with open arms to throw them onto a stage of searching and spiritual breadth. A generation of writers, readers of philosophers like Bataille, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, which would overturn the high impulses of a middle class sandwiched between the chiseled moral conventions and new desires of women’s liberation and freedom of other kinds.