Aura de amor sobrenatural (de Apolonio de Tiana a Carlos Fuentes)

In this essay the comparative follow-up of the motive of the dis / encounter of lovers belonging to different ontological fields (life / death, wakefulness / sleep), expressed in fantastic figures such as empusas, ghosts and vampires is carried out. The starting point is a story of Apollonius of Tiana according to the text of Philostratus, which was recovered by Goethe in The Bride of Corinth, taken up by 19th century authors such as Théophile Gautier and Amado Nervo, and reworked by Carlos Fuentes in the 20th century, in his novel Aura, with the addition of an 18th century Japanese author, Ueda Akinari, who wrote stories along these lines.