2021/11/23 by Dolle, Verena
paper · doi:10.23692/imex.1.9
127-141 The article is devoted to three recently created literary works, the novels La jaula de Dios by Rafael Ramírez Heredia (1989) and La otra cara de Rock Hudson by Guillermo Fadanelli (1997), as well as the short story "Jim" by Roberto Bolaño (2003). The texts serve to highlight how the city is represented in them, understood as a city-text, which plays the role of protagonist. Imitating the form of a musical fugue, Ramírez Heredia gives a totalizing vision of Mexico City, remembered with nostalgia as an anthropological place (Augé), and highlights the 1985 earthquake as a decisive moment for the beginning of the formation of a civil society in view of an inactive city government overwhelmed by the event.