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Image and realism are recurrent topics in aesthetic, philosophic and political debates every time there is a concern about the contemporaneous, since their origins as well as their overlapped destinies share a common questioning of the present. Lukac's distinction between narration and description can be read as the canonical formulation of an opposition--the image is the strategy of description and seeks the immediate seizure of the present, whereas the realist fiction orders the past, explains it and gives it an intelligible social coherence. The image is seen and the realist fiction sees, exercising a classificatory biopolitic.The image can look at us and realism can be used at a distance. In this book our interest is to analyze the transformation of the classical relationship between both terms - mimesis - in various visual, cinematographic, theatric, poetic and narrative Latin American works that activate the experience of temporality. In dialogue with two essays by Raul Antelo and Bruno Bosteels we find here numerous intertwined approaches that seem to privilege one of the two aspects but nevertheless turn out to be traversed by the other, opening up a political space between them. Imagen y realismo son temas recurrentes en las discusiones esteticas, filosoficas y politicas, cada vez que hay una preocupacion por lo contemporaneo, y sus origenes y destinos cruzados comparten la pregunta por el presente. La distincion de Lukacs entre narracion y descripcion puede leerse como la formulacion canonica de una oposicion: la imagen es la estrategia de la descripcion y persigue la captura instantanea del presente, mientras que la ficcion realista ordena el pasado, lo explica y le otorga una coherencia social inteligible. La imagen es vista, la ficcion realista ve, ejerciendo la biopolitica clasificatoria.Ahora bien, la imagen puede mirarnos y el realismo puede ser usado con distancia. Este libro analiza las transformaciones de la relacion clasica entre ambos terminos -