City images: Cartagena de Indias and La Habana, in Love in times of cholera and The novel of my life

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Manuel Martínez

Keywords

Thirdspace, nation, Ajiaco, place, space

Abstract

Based on proposals by Edward Soja and Benedict Anderson, this work offers a comparative reading between the way in which Cartagena city and La Habana city are represented in two contemporary novels. Love in  times of cholera and The novel of my life. The starting point is the different between the notions of time and place, understood as physical reality or place, and as a context of space relationships. An inquiry takes place on the significance of these cities to the collective imaginary, through descriptions of characters and of ideas of some theoricians.

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