City, marginalization, and violence in José B. Adolph's <i> Mañana, las ratas</i>. Between realism and science-fiction

This paper aims to investigate the novel Mañana, las ratas by the peruvian-german author José Bernardo Adolph. Our intention is to analyze the book to point out how through cience-fiction, a literary genre usually considered as marginal, Adolph succeed in creating a text that, by representig the exclusionist dynamics and the conflicts between center and margin of peruvian urban society of the 70’s, unmask the true nature of Power and of its stategies