The city in a geolitary perspective. Analysis and reflections of two literary works

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify those conceptions of the city and other key concepts of the geographical discipline present in two literary works of the 70s, in two different spatial contexts. The work will be developed from a geoliterary perspective, as a way of interpreting the texts of José Luis Romero Latin America. The cities and ideas, and Ítalo Calvino The invisible cities, who based on the analysis of the real city and imaginary, they reveal the conception they adopt about space in their productions. From the methodological point of view, the analysis from the geoliterary perspective will allow an articulated approach between literature and geography, by approaching from the reading of each work to various spatial units, with the possibility of identifying categories and concepts that can be read in context, taking symbolic and particular dimensions of each territory. It is identified how the authors are thinking about the city in their works, and then two common topics in both works are analyzed, that of urban expansion and the concept of border. Finally, some final reflections on how authors understand space are presented, and the main contributions of the geoliterary perspective for the analysis of different literary concepts and works