La Poética de Mario Mendoza: Percepciones y Narrativas de la Ciudad Moderna

Abstract

Literature as an exercise in the representation of an environment, its inhabitants, aspirations, conflicts and worldviews is, in turn, a mirror and an oracle of the social reality in which the writer is located. After his experiences, the writer finds elements of his environment that are common in the constitution of the individual as a subject. The common, which alludes to everything that allows us to create bridges and, therefore, communicate and act as a community, as well as the subjection, the fellowship to which the term subject refers, tells us about the imperious influence that the social environment , languages, beliefs and their systems of representation have on individuals. Mario Mendoza, as he himself affirms, descends through the city. He saw, sees and will see the citizens descend through the city, an instrument of development for modernity, the citizens of Bogotá and their characters, recognizing it as a hostile and unpredictable city capable of destroying them all.