La novela psicológica en América Latina

Abstract

The psychological literature focuses on the inner aspects of the life of the characters, it emphasizes their concerns, emotions, feelings, fears, passions or conflicts. It defines the personalities of its characters in complex ways, with ambivalent or even contradictory features, which are modified as the stories progress and its motives and circumstances change.

Its greatest development occurred in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with some very important writers in the United States of America and Japan. This article aims to review, analyze and expose its development in Latin America. We used the method of historical reconstruction at the countries of origin, to then focus on its evolution and the most representative writers in Latin America, and we present a brief overview of the contents of their main works.

It was found that Latin American works are concentrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially after the relative abandonment of the Magic Realism, in countries such as Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In the first case, the novel is strongly psychosocial.

It is concluded it is worth continuing to work with the fruitful conjunction of psychology and literature, which is currently mainly driven by the female gender.