Abstract
The article proposes a review of the urban imaginary of the novel Valpore (2009), by the writer Cristóbal Gaete, such as recreation and facing the antithesis center and periphery, hegemony and marginality, order and disorder, which stands from the city of Valparaiso. Through a narrative proposal complaint and political-social criticism, Gaete constructs an image of the marginality of Valparaiso, crossed by violence and excesses, ending setting, gradually, the destruction of the city.
Translated title of the contribution | More above of the (val)paraíso: From the marginal city to the demolished city in Valpore |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 117-143 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Revista de Humanidades |
Issue number | 32 |
State | Published - 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities