"He quick, unequal and conflicting projects ofmodernization of Colombian cities are represented invaried literary forms inside the contemporary narrativetendencies. Singular textual invoices that illustrate thecomplexity of the new urban rhythms appear then: theBogotá of Luis Fayad between 1968 and 2003 and theCartagena of Roberto Burgos Cantor between 1980 and1994; the first one as city with metropolitan appearance,but with traditional basis; the second, as example ofmedium city that seems to come undone social andculturally in front of the impact of a modernizationwithout clear guidelines"