Fragments of a portrait: the narrated city

Abstract

This article presents the narrated city in Colombian urban literature through the work of Andrés Caicedo and Rafael Chaparro Madiedo. The path traveled is a process by which is sought to show literature as a capable instrument to reveal by itself the city and to discover the fabric of its wefts, its daily histories and its daily becoming. The narrative voices present in the literature of Caicedo and Chaparro are taken as an instrument of analysis to reveal from them an approximation to the urban phenomena manifested in Cali and Bogota respectively. The references of their characters will constitute the fundamental basis to address the signs and symbols that explain the ways of living in a singular experience with the city.