Flâneur y mendigos fantasmales en El Paseo Ahumada de Enrique Lihn

In El Paseo Ahumada (1983) by Enrique Lihn, we observe the appearance of flâneur subjects and beggars who wander like ghostly figures in this new artery built as the epicenter of the country’s commercial and stock market, an example of the neo-liberal model established during the dictatorship. In the work these subjects converge with bankers and passers-by who circulate randomly through the same scene, but their interactions are mediated or avoided. Like a street flâneur, the poetic voice creates a written and visual record of the spectacle provided by the walk in which subjects circulate in unequal situations, which reveals the disturbing and ghostly presence of the mendicants.