SUMMARY
This article explores the way in which Mexican writer Alberto Chimal uses the sermo mythicus in his book Gente del mundo to practice a fantastic literature or an imagination literature that appeals to mythological memory. It is concluded that such a literary strategy as the one of the usage of a symbolic field strategically and intimately related with that sermo result both effective for the establishment, in the text, of a restorative mythopoetic statute in contemporary society.