Personajes y espacio: diversidad e inclusión en la novela El lugar sin límites, de José Donoso

Abstract

This paper focuses on a contemporary Chilean novel: El lugar sin límites by José Donoso, 1966. The narrative text refers to a figurative space that recreates a characteristic region of Chile: Talca, an imaginary village: El Olivo, and the vineyards of the central region. In this context, the fate of the characters and their fictional stories take place. Manuel-Manuela is highlighted and the passion that he experiences, while he dances, unveiling his intimate being of a woman; don Alejo Cruz, a politician, owner and landlord; the young trucker Pancho Vega, confronted with his sexual impulses and with his desire for independence from historical hegemony. The discourses that make up the novel, conditioned by the context, the time, the socio-cultural circumstances, establish a dialogue in the interior of the work and expresses a collective experience where history and literary fiction, truth and falsehood, the chronicle and the grotesque, geography and myth, interact. In this created world, a new way of making literature: the discourse of hybridization, is manifested.