El humor y la sensación de abandono en El hombre crucigrama de Roberto Abad

This article analyzes the work El hombre crucigrama by Mexican writer and musician Roberto Abad, based on theoretical approaches of authors such as Pere Ballart, Roman Ingarden and José Enrique Téllez, as well as from its relationship with other disciplines including music, literature and physics, with the purpose of exposing the way in which elements as the absurd and irony are appropriated by the author and rewritten in his discourse. In Abad’s work, the aforementioned concepts are expanded and re-signified. The author dialogues with myths and archetypes consolidated in Western culture, while resorting to humor as a point of interaction between the various elements of the text. The book-art is approached as an object, which also becomes a vehicle for the extra-linguistic link between reader and work. This allows a greater immersion of the receiver with its contents. In this way, the various elements that make up El hombre crucigrama allow conceptualizing an existential vision of man and his actions in the face of problems that surpass him, such as the absurd, abandonment, loneliness and death.