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Formas novelescas en Hispanoamérica

Abstract

The article proposes a reflexion about the strategies of artistic formalization of Latinamerican modernism, which is marginal, late and unfinished. This reflexion takes the stand of postmodern epistemology. It is entered around a few novels of the XIXth and XXth centuries, and shows the heterogeneous nature of the social imaginary, as well as the forms of figuration of the relation between time and space, and those configuration of the subjects, be it the subject of the stories or the subject of literary enunciation. It shows how this forms of figuration lie on a conflictive dialogue between the notions of time, subject, and knowledge inherited from the Western reason and Illustration, and confronting the Spanish American texts with the theories of the novel as they his- where developed by Hegel, Lukacs, and Goldmann, and by Mikhail Bakhtin.