Distancias y arraigos. Apropiación de los espacios urbanos narrados en El Faro de Felipe González

In view of the few critical studies about the concept of literary appropriation of urban spaces, this article aims to cover this theorical gap by applying this notion in the analysis of El Faro. One of the dimensions of literary appropriation is distancing, an operation that configures spatial representations of the novel in three ways: in the narrator’s focus; in the reflections about the scriptural exercise; in memory work. The conclusions indicate that the distance gaze is constituted as a way of putting down roots in the spaces and as a creative instance of new imaginaries about the city.