La “función social” de las novelas urbanas de José Antonio Osorio Lizarazo un análisis socio-estético del “contenido” de la modernización y la “forma” de la miseria como imagen contrastiva de lo social

Abstract

The need for a critical assessment of the work of urban literature by this writer, arises from the lack of studies that address this series of novels in a methodical way, since existing studies focus on a partial interpretation, based on social motivations of Osorio Lizarazo, and not from the works themselves. The problem of these studies is not so much that they are sustained under the author's social position, but more than anything else, in the inclination to interpret these novels from their biographical nature, from which insubstantial interpretations result which only serve to indicate the superficial in the works, that is, the social injustice that they denounce, derived from their radical political position in defense of the poor; the nineteenth-century style linked to the aesthetics of Realism, for the author's taste for the social literature of a Máximo Gorki, for example; and poverty as a preferential theme in his work because of his humble origins, since the writer was the son of artisans. Therefore, and consequently, critics have interpreted Osorio Lizarazo's work as a mere reflection of the social problems of his time, as an x-ray of the city society in the Colombian capital of the first half of the twentieth century, more is precisely this interpretation what constitutes the problem of this study. Let us observe, then, in depth, in what This criticism consists.