Un mundo sin Xóchitl (2001) de Miguel Gutiérrez o tras las huellas de la diosa de las flores.

The textual object, Un mundo sin Xóchitl, is articulated around a central axis, the incestuous love between two brothers entering puberty, a theme already announced by the writer in his first novel, El viejo saurio se retira (1969). Our hypothesis of analysis is that the prohibition is to be read as an initiatory experience, so we propose to approach the text from the bias of the hero's journey, understood according to the pattern proposed by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (2014), namely the representation of the formula of initiation rites: separation, initiation, return. Based on a traditional literary analysis that we will combine with a sociocritical approach, we will begin by questioning the discourse on the family, focused on the reciprocal role of the father, Don Elías, and the mother, Constanza. The second part of this paper will delve into the various transgressions of her two children, Güencho (Wenceslao) and Xóchitl who, in the name of an absolute love, find through incest a way to 'flee from the father and the Others' and, especially for Xóchitl, a paradigm that makes possible the emergence of consciousness from the diffuse darkness of the collective unconscious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]