The space of Mexico City in The most transparent region (1958) , by Carlos Fuentes

Résumé

This article contains a socio-critical analysis of the space in the novel The Most Transparent Region, by the recently deceased writer Carlos Fuentes. The study was carried out within the framework of a broader investigation that included the analysis of other great Mexican novels of the 20th century, and in which, implicitly, we follow the theoretical and methodological guidelines of: the Sociocritical Theory of the French Claude Duchet; the narrative theory of the School of Paris; the theories of the novel by Marxist thinkers and that of the Russian researcher Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as the Theory of Social Representations according to the French Jean-Claude Abric and Denisse Jodelet. In a sense, the article aims to answer the essential question: How do the central characters and narrators of this novel describe, live and represent the space of Mexico City ?; in another, to emphasize that, for half a century,The more transparent region gave us the keys to where the post-revolutionary governments were leading the country. Keys that current leaders need to know to redirect the course.