La ciudad de Santiago en el sentir de Joaquín Edwards Bello y de Jorge Edwards

Abstract

In the city is a space resulting from the feeling of fellow-citizenship created by those whoinhabit it (according to Emile Benveniste's hypothesis), it is possible to make a description and an interpretation of the city according to the feelings of fellow-citizenship that inhabit Joaquín Edwards Bello's El roto and Jorge Edwards' word (1952-2004).
From this perspective, the feeling of fellow-citizenship that derives from the city described in El roto would be that of the implicit cannibalism in the Chilean society. And, I believe, this is the fundamental core of Edwards Bello's work.
In Jorge Edwards´ work, it is possible to distinguish two different feelings of fellow-citizenship corresponding to two different periods of his work: the city of disciplinant labyrinths (noticeable in the period that goes from El patio, 1952, to Los convidados de piedra, 1978) and the ironic and planetary city (visible from El museo de cera, 1981, to his recent El inútil de la familia, 2004).
These two feelings of fellow-citizenship are created around the axis of the remembrance of the past at its break point, the "imbunchamiento" to which the most gifted characters of the textual city are subjected.