The Buenos Aires Chronicles. The Megalopolis of Buenos Aires in the Current Argentine Literary Journalism

Abstract

The list of Argentine journalists is outstanding, both in the quality of its works and in their collective achievement of a distinctive style. This study has the ambition of focusing on nonfiction stories that describe the territorial diversity of Buenos Aires. These portraits reveal a common interest in that city and its metropolitan area, stressing its outstanding, common, marginal and special features. This great metropolitan area forces the writer to divide the territories in parts; to focus on isolated experiences, to make specific interventions in the urban space with a mixed and complex rhetoric and narratology. This study goes into detailed analysis of Si me querés quereme transa by Cristian Alarcón (2010); Los otros by Josefina Licitra (2011), Sangre joven. Matar y morir en la adultez by Javier Sinay (2009) and Sangre Salada (2011) by Sebastián Hacher.