Resumen

TRIVINOS, Gilberto. Mariluán de Alberto Blest Gana: Panóptico, utopía, alteridad. Atenea (Concepc.) [online]. 2004, n.490, pp. 33-57. ISSN 0718-0462.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-04622004049000003.

The "essential singularity" of Mariluán, the forgotten novel of the realist cycle by Blest Gana, is encoded in the shifting of the gaze that extracts its power from the fecund sun of civilization to a counter gaze illuminated by the intolerable clarity of the Great Game in Chile: on one hand, the Other is always dead; on the other hand, he is indestructible.

Palabras clave : Blest Gana; Mariluán; novel; ethnicity; nation; utopia.