Laura Restrepo, Silvia Galvis, Pilar Quintana and Ma. Cristina Restrepo: Vectors of Reading in the Colombian Contemporary (Narc)Novel

Abstract

There is a group of novelists whose own voice characterizes from the fictional and the real a series of characters prone to the negation of the city spaces built from the historical, the literary and the sociological, rather than from the economic. And in this sense, their writing becomes a reference, because they develop a new way of accessing the city, its characters and the events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century that, from the economic, political and social generated a deterministic implosion of Bogotá, Cali and Medellín and by extension of the whole country. This group includes the Colombian writers Laura Restrepo, Silvia Galvis, Pilar Quintana and Ma. Cristina Restrepo, whose novels establish the narrative coordinates of a writing beyond sensibility, with which the vectors of a diligent look of a society committed to history and the expressions of its own existence.