THE REFLECTION ON STROLLER AND THE STROLLING IN LATIN AMERICAN MODERNIST WRITERS

This article analyzes the flaneur (strolling spectator) poetics and the flanerie in the work of five Latin American modernist writers. As narrators, each one of them is conscious of and reflects about his behavior as flaneur and the tactics of flanerie or callejeo. Flanerie is interpreted as the gaze intellectuals use to understand the Turn of the Century city. The idle and indolent street strolling, ritual of the classic flaneur, is adopted in the writing of Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Julian del Casal, Amado Nervo Manuel Gutierrez Najera.