Resumen

GARCIA DIAZ, Teresa. Foreignness, uprooting, and the Need to belong in La invasion del pueblo del espíritu, by Juan Pablo Villalobos. LiminaR [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.2, pp.123-134.  Epub 27-Sep-2021. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v19i2.855.

This paper introduces Juan Pablo Villalobos as an innovative writer that, among other topics, treats immigration from diverse perspectives and genres in his latter novels. Here we analyze the nuances with which the characters face numerous difficulties, in order to integrate themselves into a new space and establish relationships with other people in the novel La invasión del pueblo del espíritu [The Invasion of the Spirit’s People] (2020). Solitude and otherness trap the characters in the new space; Marc Augé’s concept of non-place is discussed here to analyze this situation. Likewise, we reflect on the symbiosis between space and time; this symbiosis comes from the fugacity and the movement within the novel’s plot; in this respect, Gaston Bachelard and Martin Heidegger’s insights are reviewed. Further, we study the peculiar multiple narrative voice, which joins together with the reader to perceive, interpret, and narrate events.

Palabras llave : Villalobos; narrative; immigrants; time and space symbiosis.