Análisis de ciudad en el libro "La noche japonesa" de Juan Pablo Castro

Abstract

Writer and university professor, Juan Pablo Castro, with his short novel The night japanese has decided to inquire into the thoughts and reflections more dark that hides the human being in relation to life. It also highlights those features that keep the city of Quito and the form of God that this is for and about its inhabitants. Through its characters critical religion and claimed the right of the marginal beings within the cities. These aspects motivated the analysis of the work of Castro together with the theory of the urban imaginaries of Armando Silva, mainly, the same that helped us to conclude that the transformism, denial and secrecy are forms of dressing of the contemporary city. We have formed a concept of dressing in the cities and we have known their causes.

It is imperative that rescue in this work is presented in detail the political and cultural context of the life of the author; fundamental element to know and understand their approach and progress in the literature. We also collect their works, and we present a summary of each one of them to understand the style, techniques and themes used in their stories and especially to get closer to the work of a new Ecuadorian writer.