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THE REPRESENTATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL ACTOR IN THE JOURNALISTIC CHRONICLES OF GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Imaginary. Chronicles. Literary-journalism. Gabriel García Márquez. Social actor.

The beginning of Colombian Nobel's career Gabriel García Márquez was marked by the presence of journalism and literature that, in his case, always went hand in hand when the subject is the chronicle. It was in the years 1948 to 1952, that Gabo began his journalistic-literary career, publishing his notes almost daily in Colombian newspapers. They are chronicles that move between journalism and literature, the real and the fictional, and all of them carrying the magic of writing from those who years later would come to be considered one of the fathers of Latin American magical Realism. In this dissertation, which analyzes a selection of these journalistic chronicles published in the book Obra periodística Vol.1: Textos costeños (1991), by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, we intend to analyze how the representation of the characters of his chronicles occurs as a social actor, and to identify, therefore, how the characters in these narratives contribute to the construction of a social and cultural imaginary of Latin American identity. A study based on bibliographic research uses, in addition to the book already mentioned, biographies about the author, Bachelard (1989), Bender and Laurito (1993), Candido (1989, 2011), Chiampi (1980), Cunha (1986), Franco (2004), Hall (2006), Moisés (2004), Moscovici (2015, 1978), Nitrini (2000), Sartre (1999), Soares (2002) and Vivaldi (1986) as a theoretical basis. It is possible to observe that, García Márquez represented his characters based on the observation of people who was part of his daily life and the daily lives of the readers who read him, composing his texts in a way that Candido (2011) calls humanizing literature, one that has the role of making ordinary people feel represented and identify with what is being read. García Márquez, at the beginning of his career, already wrote about his people and for his people, bringing in his narratives the presence of historical events in the identity formation of America about whom / which he writes.