Abstract

EISSA OSORIO, Julia Isabel. Laberinto of Eduardo Antonio Parra: a violated space. Lit. mex [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.1, pp.137-164.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.34.1.7900s42x6.

Many writers have used the labyrinth as a game between reality and fiction, or between fantastic and everyday space. However, what happens when a known space is seen to be violated, being transformed into a great labyrinth that traps the characters and changes their reality and their lives forever? One possibility is the transformation of “places” into “spaces,” since violated places lose all their previous identity. The present work aims to analyze the relationship between violence and the space of the northern border in the novel Laberinto (2019) by Eduardo Antonio Parra, since it shows a part of the most current reality of this place that, due to violence, has become a strange and inhospitable space for its inhabitants. For this, the concept of violence is approached according to Benjamin, Astorga Almanza, and Hurtado Heras; and those of space and place, according to Westphal, Ryan, Foot and Maoz.

Keywords : violence; space; border; drug trafficking; northern literature; aesthetics of violence.

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