The Mirror in La Rambla paralela [My Parallel Deaths] (2002) by Fernando Vallejo

The novels of the Colombian author Fernando Vallejo (1942) are auto-fictional proposals written in the first person and from a place of exile. Within them, La Rambla paralela (2002) stands out for being a novel in which the traditional first person narrator of Vallejo, creates a bi...

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Main Author: Domínguez Torres, Mario Alberto
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2017
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Online Access:https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/6208
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Summary:The novels of the Colombian author Fernando Vallejo (1942) are auto-fictional proposals written in the first person and from a place of exile. Within them, La Rambla paralela (2002) stands out for being a novel in which the traditional first person narrator of Vallejo, creates a biographer who writes, from the third person, about the trip to Barcelona and the death of the narrator. The aim of this article is to eva - luate how the unfolding of the narrator-author in the figure of the biographer allows the first to make the novel into a mirror through which he evaluates his stylistic attributes