Confluences and bifurcations between La Rambla paralela and Casablanca la bella. Dialogues with ironic and visceral geographies in the work of Fernando Vallejo

Abstract

This first-person geographical approach to Fernando Vallejo's literary work is divided into seven sections. In the first, I intend to introduce the research and contextualize it, providing elements on the central aspects that defined the research, including issues related to the method that I have followed. The second, fully entering into the analysis of the novels La Rambla paralela and Casablanca la bella, is a discussion based on my interpretations, perspectives and findings, regarding some identified personal spaces and spatialities. The third section is dedicated to scrutinizing the elements that the writer raises in terms of time and the evolution of cities and territories. The following, the fourth, is a commitment to the identification of the forms of territorial appropriation present in his narrative. In the fifth part, I focus my interest on the discussion of conflicts and tensions in urbanized areas and in the world that Fernando Vallejo, in a non-systematic or orderly manner, proposes as a provocation. The sixth part is dedicated to discussing the identified confluences and narrative bifurcations. In the last portion I present some final ideas and recommendations regarding the link between literature and geography, as a matter to be studied in depth, and regarding writing in the first person in the geographical field.