Latin American cities in fiction

with Reynaldo Damazio

Dates: August 05, 12, 19, 26 and September 02, 2025
Tuesdays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 05 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R $ 400,00

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Course includes certificate at the end

The course addresses a theme dear to Latin American literature: the emblematic presence of fictional cities that are also characters in novels, such as in “Pedro Páramo” by Juan Rulfo, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez, “A Short Life” by Juan Carlos Onetti, and “The Hour of the Ruminants” by José J. Veiga, among others. More than mere settings, these cities are a reference and structural element of the narrative: a topoi (place) of symbolic identity and social conflicts. The proposal is to collectively reflect on the works based on their representation of the landscape, as a resource of literary language.

Agenda

Class 01 – Territory and imaginary

• The importance of territory in the Latin American poetic imagination
• From indigenous foundation myths to wandering quesa e General song
• Ethics and aesthetics of narrative

Class 02 – Ghostly city

• eat it, by Juan Rulfo
• Ancestry and fiction
• Deconstructed reality

Class 03 – Fantastic city

• Macondo, by Garcia Marquez
• Magical realism and surrealism
• Poetics of territory

Class 04 – Uncertain city

• Santa Maria, by Juan Carlos Onetti
• Personal and collective failure
• Wandering versus rooting

Class 05 – City under siege

• Manarairema, by Jose J. Veiga
• City and state of siege
• Capturing the imagination

Reynaldo Damazio

Editor, literary critic, writer and coordinator of the Writers Support Center at the Casa das Rosas museum. Graduated in Social Sciences from USP, with a specialization in Advertising and Marketing and Cultural Management. He was co-editor of the newspaper “Caderno de Leitura”, from EdUSP, and a contributor to the Book Guide of “Folha de S. Paulo” and the magazines “Cult”, “Arte Brasileiros”, “Entrelivros”, “Mente e Cérebro” , “Our America” and “Literature: Practical Knowledge”. Author of Poetry, language (Memorial da América Latina); Naked among clouds (Science of Accident); Perplexed Hours (Editora 34); With teeth in the corner and trails; notes & other plots (both by Dobradura Editorial), Trench Criticism: reviews (Giostri Editora) and the recent Movimentos Portables (Kotter Editorial), among others. He translated Calvina (SM Editora), by Carlo Frabetti.

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credits: León Ferrari, untitled. Photo: Romulo Fialdini