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The paper sheds light on Isaac Goldemberg’s The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner and Mario Szichman’s At 8:25 Evita Became Immortal to bring in focus the Latin American marginal in spatial and ethnic terms. The spatial in the said novels is traced in the shady peripheries that have given refuge to those who have been ousted by the privileged. The ethnic is manifested by the community of migrant Jews who remain in the constant fear of a pogrom being around the corner. Lima, in Goldemberg, and Buenos Aires, in Szichman, were the two major cultural hubs of Latin America during the late 20th century. Yet there existed a deep-rooted anti-Semitic wave that often goes unvoiced in the mainstream Latin American literature. The paper attempts to underscore the importance of Goldemberg and Szichman’s novels with respect to a hegemonic universality, represented by the texts, where the plural voices of the spatial and ethnic marginals coexist subverting the absolute frame of power