University, novel and city In the mexican notions of the 20th century

Abstract

As a contribution to the celebrations of the 100^th anniversary of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), the first university in our continent and one of the leading universities in Spanish-speaking countries, the purpose of this article is to discuss how the three spheres of reality mentioned in its heading relate to each other, or to become aware of the importance of the University’s role in the construction of Mexican social notions. This experiment is interesting because, following this discussion, we will be able to understand that, without the UNAM or its contributions, the current reality of our country would not exist as such. And at the same time, but according to more specific objectives, we intend to probe the importance of the University’s role or its forms of social representation in other areas of the national reality, especially in the Mexican novel movement of the 20^th century.