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There are works that carry in themselves the germ of writing; they can draw, in an almost metaliterary game, the theoretical framework and the poetics of the author. This article aims to analyze the evolution of the narrative writing of Mario Vargas Llosa starting from one of his first novels, Aunt Julia and the writer. Although very successful, it has been unfairly considered as a secondary novel within his vast production. The book, however, contains several autobiographical and theoretical elements which are the key to understand the writing process of the author and the idea of novel of the Peruvian-Hispanic writer.

In this paper we will analyse four narratives: Boca de lobo (2000) and by the Argentinean writer Sergio Chejfec, Menino oculto (2005) by the Brazilian writer Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, El Aleph engordado (2009) by the Argentinean writer Pablo Katchadjian, and Meshugá by the Brazilian writer Jacques Fux. The aim is to understand the dynamics and fragments of time which would constitute an understanding of the present time. These elements allow us to map the thematic and formal expressions of the present time in contemporary Latin American narrative.