Metamorfosis de motivos caballerescos y folclóricos en "Galaor" (1972) de Hugo Hiriart

This article deals with the mechanisms of re-fictionalization of chivalric genre in the novel Galaor (1972) by the Mexican writer Hugo Hiriart. Specifically, choosing as a starting point the folkloric motifs and the set of thematic and narrative motifs that characterize the extensive corpus of Spanish Books of Chivalry, the structure and the fictional ingredients used by the author to promote the adaptation of the genre to a context of current reception. The objective of the work is to assess how, through parody and hyperbolic configuration, Hiriart manages to recreate an unusual chivalric universe, based on a constant violation of conventional topics, to the point of questioning his own characters (and the contemporary reader with them) about moral and existential questions that break with the expected horizon typical of the genre.