Paisaje y viajes en Trilogía de Centroamérica de Javier Reverte

Abstract

Travel Literature allows you to travel different latitudes, unexplored places or visit unknown destinations, added to its hybrid nature, this gives a space to subjectivity and fiction. This study covers some of the landscape elements present in Reverte’s three novels in which the rural and urban landscapes that are developed scripturally in various Central American cities and regions are contrasted. The main objective of this investigation is to present the description of the landscape and identify the identity elements that appear in the Central American Trilogy. To achieve this, the use of Comparative Literature will be used as a work methodology. Among the main results, the configuration of natural and urban spaces stands out, it is worth mentioning that, in the midst of the Cold War that was raging in Central America at that time, several cities in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua appear in literary terms that serve as a setting and reference for different realities that take us back to the troubled decade of the eighties of the last century. Thus, the identity and cultural elements that flow through its characters are significant and symbolic that shape the historical fictional portrait of the region. In conclusion, this literary genre carries a series of connotations that question the Central American realities and idiosyncrasies throughout the low-intensity conflict and is an approach from Travel Literature written about Central America that will serve as the basis for new research on novels. historical pictures that portray Central America.