Guanajuato, Gto., September 4, 2018.- The dialogue between two disciplines that permeates the culture of our time is the subject of "La Ley y palabras". Limits on law and literature, a text by the authorship of the President of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, and the poet and Doctor of philosophy Benjamin Valdivia Magdaleno, which was presented at the university.

In the text, published by Grañén-Porrúa the authors point out that between law and literature there are ties that exceed the forty centuries. However, it was from modernity, with the creation of the novel as genre and the democratic development of the legal institution that these bonds became close.

In this regard, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino commented that this book is an attempt to approximate law to literature, and they do so from the analysis of fundamental works such as the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, The Merchant of Venice, Fuenteovejuna, the Godfather, silver bullets, crime and punishment or the process.

As the authors mention in the text, law and literature have come across a common path throughout human history. "Considering this distant proximity", some legal presences in the literary orb point out.

In his speech, the writer and university scholar, Dr. Benjamin Valdivia, referred to elements such as power and transgression, present in legal texts and literature.

According to what is embodied in "La ley y palabras", archaic literary monuments, like the legal ones, have the trace of being sacred texts, with a fluctuating character between social and religious relations, although they differ in focus: those of legal guidance express the rules with a view to their compliance or to the subsequent punishment for non-compliance; the literary ones relate the situation from which the protagonist has snubbed the fulfillment of the mandate.

The Coordinator of the Editorial programme, Dr. Elba Margarita Sánchez Rolón, and the M. Carlos Ulises Mata were the commentators, who quoted one of the conclusions of the text: "Since antiquity, but especially in modernity, the literary works have taken in their hands the legal matter to let us know that to the date we continue fighting for the justice and that we can always Resorting to the law, for we count on it with all the words. "

The presentation of "La ley y palabras". Limits on law and literature was carried out within the framework of the book Fair of UG. In the event, which took place in the Council hall, members of the university community and the general public were given an appointment.

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