Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the representation of the city in Mario Levrero’s involuntary trilogy, La ciudad, El lugar y París, within the tradition of the urban novel. Through a three-dimensional textual reading, private spaces (oppression), public spaces (uninhabitability), and mobility (disorientation), and drawing on Lefebvre and Bauman, we show that Levrero’s urban landscape is constructed as a hostile environment. Montevideo functions as a memorial anchor; Paris as a horizon of desire whose materialization reveals the distance between the imaginary and the real city. The trilogy thus articulates a disoriented and dehumanized urban experience that interrogates the narrator’s subjectivity and his connections to others.
Source: Uirtus
Author: Kouassi Abraham Palangue
Institution: Université Alassane Ouattara
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414145641