Cronotopos em Los Pequeños Seres, de Salvador Garmendia

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 esthetically through flows of consciousness and self-reflexivity enhanced by the relationship between time-space and the little human being. Through the theories of authors and philosophers such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Gaston Bachelard, Georg Lukács etc., we will seek to analyze 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 of Salvador Garmendia.