Cidade e autorreflexividade : a literatura urbana de Salvador Garmendia em Los Pequeños Seres

Abstract

This work presents a study on Los Pequeños Seres (1959) by Salvador Garmendia. As we know, literary works can represent the historical context of a society through the style and the construction of the characters in their relation with time and space of the narrative. The venezuelan writer, Salvador Garmendia is one of the authors who represented beings in relation to their surroundings. Garmendia wrote during and especially after the government of former venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez and his works emphasize the being in crisis and the urban aspect of the city, that is a critic to the process of modernization happened in the dictatorial period of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. From this, we seek to reflect the representation of space in this work, through concepts such as chronotope, trauma, memory and archetypes, with the purpose of analyzing the causes and consequences of the political and social influence within the literary work. The relationship between Salvador Garmendia and Latin American literature and his narrative style is also evident. As a result, we have the relation between historical and social conflicts and the individual presented aesthetically through flows of consciousness and self-reflexivity

enhanced by the relationship between time-space and being. As a critical- theoretical orientation for this research, we are based on authors such as

Churión (1999), Bakthin (2014), Halbwachs (1992), LaCapra (2005), among others.