TY - JOUR AU - Pérez-Amezcua, Luis Alberto AU - Sigala Gómez, Ricardo PY - 2018/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Myth, fantasy and magic in Gente del mundo, by Alberto Chimal JF - Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica JA - Amaltea VL - 10 IS - 0 SE - Articles | Thematic Issue DO - 10.5209/AMAL.58791 UR - https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/AMAL/article/view/58791 SP - 55-66 AB - This article explores the way in which Mexican writer Alberto Chimal uses the<em> sermo mythicus</em> in his book<em> Gente del mundo </em>to practice a fantastic literature or an imagination literature that appeals to mythological memory. It is concluded that such a literary strategy as the one of the usage of a symbolic field strategically and intimately related with that sermo result both effective for the establishment, in the text, of a restorative mythopoetic statute in contemporary society. <br /> ER -