Carlos Daniel Ortiz
This essay is a sociocritic analysis of the novel La Vorágine (1924), written by José Eustasio Rivera (Neiva 1888- New York 1928). Its objective is to elucidate one of the existent axiological position presented in this literary work, specifically, the romantic one (Girard, 1963). The reading of the text is organized in two parts: first, the idealization of love, where it is established the construction of the romantic position taken in terms of love, the socioeconomic values of the modernity and the capitalism, taking into account, the hero of the novel and the idealization of a woman, according to the women characters and their ideological voice.