Valverde, Beatriz2024-08-262024-08-2620150213-1854https://hdl.handle.net/10953/3137In this article the concept of „semiosphere‟, developed by the Russian-Estonian scholar Juri Lotman, is used to examine the relationship between the African and the European communities in the Congo portrayed by Graham Greene in A Burnt-Out Case and by Mario Vargas Llosa in El sueño del celta. With this analysis I will prove that even though both authors denounce the terrible consequences of the European colonization had for the African people, the native communities in the novels are still depicted from a western paternalistic perspective.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleCongo. Colonization. Lotman. Semiosphere. Europeans. Africans. Greene. Vargas Llosa.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess