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PASCUAL GAY, Juan. Más allá y más acá del papel en blanco. El café, el bar y las tertulias en el “fin de siglo” mexicano. Valenciana [online]. 2009, vol.2, n.4, pp.101-130. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i4.246.

In this work we´ll find an investigation about the democratization of the public spaces and the relation between this phenomenon with another more intimate: the display of ideas and writing. The text begins from the last quarter of the XIX century, exposing the evident contrast between the social classes in Mexico. The author exposes the characterization of some of the more frequented clubs by the high society, their luxury and elegance, in contrast with the pubs, sites for the people´s distraction.

Subsequently, places like the bar and the coffee bar, where the gathering was developed, became more important because of the diversity of people who assisted to them, allowing the coexistence of different social groups. This places accommodated the writers of the late romanticism, modernists, members of the Contemporáneos, Taller and the Generación de Medio Siglo. Literary production that sometimes is grown, developed or transformed in this sites of discussion and reflection.

Palabras llave : Coffe bar; gathering; autobiographic literature; public spaces.

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