Cronotopos em Los Pequeños Seres de Salvador Garmendia

Abstract

Abstract this article is a study on the literary work Los Pequeños Seres (1959), by the Venezuelan writer Salvador Garmendia. The author's work emphasizes the being in crisis, the inhabitant of the complex city and the urban aspect of the city. Based on this, we seek to reflect the representation of space and time (past and present) in the referred work, through the concept of Chronotope by Mikhail Bakhtin. As a result, there is the relationship between the social and individual conflicts of Mateo Martán, protagonist of the work, presented aesthetically through flows of consciousness and self-reflexivity enhanced by the relationship between time-space and the little human being. Through the theories of authors such as Bachelard, Bourneuf, Ouellet, Brandão, Churión, Dimas, Fernandes, Jaramillo, Lukács, Wellek and Warren, we will seek to analyze and reflect on the relationship of the city with the citizens and the spaces inhabited since childhood, in order to better understand the personality and performance of Mateo Martán in the narrative.

Keywords Chronotope. City. Being. Space-time relationship.