Joaquín Edwards Bello: Crónica y crítica de la vida cotidiana chilena

Abstract

This article focuses on the criticism of Chilean everyday life in the writings of Joaquín EdwardsBello.The first part concentrates on important aspects of urban chronicle as a genre associated to its journalistic origin, structure, readership, and the conditions of Chilean modernity atthe beginning of the 20th century. Supported by a brief corpus of chronicles, the second partof the article attempts to defi ne one essential feature present in Edwards's criticism: namely a criticism of both a specifi c and uninterrupted mode in which power has been imposed on the Chilean society effecting extreme forms of polarization and the ideological discourses that "naturalize" its presence.