IMAGINARY SPACE VS REAL SPACE IN THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: LE CLÉZIO Y GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Abstract

It is clear that every person needs to build his own place, a meaningful space that allows him to live fully. He has the possibility to claim that which is private, that which is his own, that which belongs to him as a result of his identity and his ownership. Each physical location becomes an anthropological place depending more on the personal connections with the place that on the very type of place. The lack of recognition and identity creates a sense of instability, disorientation and unreality in most people. We call non-physical spaces the places where this happens, because they condemn and obliterate the "I", as the possibility to establish a bond with them is almost unthinkable. The fact of knowing a place and feeling comfortable creates a fully identification of the person with the place, the individual endorses it coming back to it. Whatever the type of space, the most important thing is not the space in which the individual moves, but rather the experiences he lives there, allowing him to create links and take over the place. In general, reconciliation between worlds, different ways of seeing life, lack of freedom, the rejection of the "Other", war, respect for nature are, among others, situations of concern to these writers in a society where the life of the individual is a continuous swaying and restlessness.