The aim and objective of this project is to study the treatment of time and space in the Latin American literature between 1940s and 1980s, historic period marked by a significant political excitement and by a vast production of narratives dealing with the theme of captivity. This type of novels seems to be particularly capable of a fictitious reconstruction of a captive memory. Indeed, in the novel, as well as in the social life of several Latin American countries of this period, the (re)construction of the memory – or the deconstruction of the oblivion – are connected to the fact of (not) having the freedom to engage in certain physical actions: going out and speaking; thinking and staying indoors; expressing oneself and losing the ability to have a social life, etc. If, as G. Bachelard maintains in The Poetics of the Space, every material reality represented in a world of fiction finds a clear correspondence in the current events among which an author creates a novel, our hypothesis suggests that this return to the theme of the captivity of the Latin American writers could represent an underlying attempt to tame or to seize a new future in which memory will no longer be a political position instead of an immaterial object freely built. Our study will concern a corpus of twelve authors and seventeen novels of seven different countries: Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and, in spite of its specificity, Cuba, a nation which can give us a more complete vision in the context in question.