Void Spaces: Displacements and Journeys in Contemporary Colombian Fiction

Abstract

Colombian cultural productions of recent decades represent in many cases the alienation experienced from the globalization of neoliberalism. This essay presents a sample of the devastating consequences of drug trafficking as a business that has financed the last decades of the Colombian internal conflict through productions such as La gente de la universal, La estrategia del caracol, Angosta, Rosario Tijeras, La virgen de los sicarios and La multitud errante,. These are taken as a symptom of the social exclusion, the fragmentation of the State, and the entropy of urban space, in places that can offer everything and nothing at the same time.