Dimensiones espacial, visceral y humanala narrativa de la violencia en tres novelas colombianas de la modernidad

Abstract

The narrative of violence in Colombia has multiple dimensions. This paper analyzes the way in which space, emotions and the defense of humanity are the elements that make up the prose where violence is a neighborhood, a suffering or a natural component of the characters that are part of the analyzed works. This document presents an analysis of the concept of violence and a proposal for a phenomenology of violence. In addition, violence is analyzed from the spatial dimension offered by the work Compañeros de viaje, by Luis Fayad; the emotional and visceral dimension that appears in El tiempo de las amazonas, by Marvel Moreno; and the human dimension, which is the counterpoint in the novel Abraham entre bandidos, by Tomás González. All three are examples of writers who manage to narrate violence without falling into the spectacle typical of Sicaresque novels, which are most popular today.