Abstract

The article proposes a review of the urban imaginary of the novel Valpore (2009), by the writer Cristóbal Gaete, such as recreation and facing the antithesis center and periphery, hegemony and marginality, order and disorder, which stands from the city of Valparaiso. Through a narrative proposal complaint and political-social criticism, Gaete constructs an image of the marginality of Valparaiso, crossed by violence and excesses, ending setting, gradually, the destruction of the city.