In this article, I analyse the moral systems of the protagonists of Vallejo’s La Virgen de los Sicarios. The protagonists have different in-group and out-group moralities, especially when considering violence in Colombian society. Fernando, the narrator and main character, shifts his out-group morality from a civilized to a ‘sicariato’ one due to the influence of his sicario-lovers. This means that he gradually approves of violence against other people. I hypothesize that this changing morality is a feature of the sicaresque genre. I also present prototypical standard features as tools for inclusion of novels within the sicaresque. Future analyses will show if changing moralities is one of the characterizing features of this genre.

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La Virgen de los Sicario 中的暴力道德

在这篇文章中，我分析了 Vallejo 的 La Virgen de los Sicarios 主人公的道德体系。主角有不同的群体内和群体外道德，尤其是在考虑哥伦比亚社会的暴力时。费尔南多，叙述者和主角，由于他的 sicario 爱好者的影响，将他的外群体道德从文明转变为“sicariato”。这意味着他逐渐赞同针对他人的暴力行为。我假设这种不断变化的道德是滑稽剧类型的一个特征。我还提出了典型的标准特征，作为将小说包含在滑稽剧中的工具。未来的分析将表明不断变化的道德是否是这一类型的特征之一。