Abstract
Gómez Carrillo represents the period of the Hispanoamerican literature called modernism, that means the turn of the 20th century. He spent almost all his life out of Guatemala, especially in France and Spain, falling in love with the French capital, symbol of everything new, shocking and rare.
He wrote a vast literary work, especially journalistic articles and chronicles (mainly from his travels to Europe and exotic lands), and also short novels Tres novelas inmorales / Three immoral novels, on which this article focuses. We consider them as an interesting portrait of the epoch called fin de siècle; under their provocative and indecent surface are hidden the basic artistic questions of the moment: Which is the price of the art? Which role the artist is supposed to play in the modern world? And what distance is between a real love and a mere lust?