The religion in Malos Timpos of Juan Madrid

Abstract

Investing the Res factae, the Spanish author of black novels Juan Madrid gathers in Malos tiempos (2017) the stories of eight bloody local news that he had already published as a reporter in Cambio 16. The murders reported there derive from attributes of contemporary society: materialism, greed, individualism, etc. Religion, as an instrument of alienation and its commodification, is at the origin of the horrible crime committed by Hermanas de Luz, followers of Saint Lucia. This article is a study based on a hermeneutic approach, reconciling the theoretical-conceptual and epistemological perspective with textual practice.