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The present work explores the function of the literary works as sociological and
anthopological documents within the Culture Studies field. By the analysis of three short
stories written by Latin-American authors, from the XXth century, this paper aims to
show how Europe, and particularly Paris, is perceived as an exotic landscape, hardly
interpreted by the Latin-American characters that appear in each story, and, at the same
time, this distance between the heros and the city will result in a redefintion of their own
identity. Within the three documents used in this work, the city and the otherness appear
to stablish a relationship with the heros, providing the necessary elements to confront
their knowledge of the world against those habits in the new space where the action takes
place, creating a sense of opposition between safe-unknown and also as savage-civilized.