Search

This paper analyzes the poetic of Valeria Luiselli's Los niños perdidos. The text, which is subtitled «Un ensayo en treinta preguntas», is actually a hybrid form made of essay and fiction. Three elements are key to its structure: the voice of the narrator, a series of questions from an immigration questionnaire, and the different answers that the «niños perdidos» offer to it. In addition, due to its hybrid layout, the mobile development of its writng and its presentation of the political refugee crisis as an intersection of statements, Los niños perdidos can be understood as a reflection of the Postmodern thought that that signals the delegitimization of metanarratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]