This dissertation seeks to outline a theory of the Spanish-American being through the art, following an interpretative method that traces certain symbolic constants, which in turn indicate a way of being more or less permanent. This thesis also analytically studies five novels and five themes: Pedro Páramo and ambiguity; Rayuela and intermittence; La casa verde and precariousness; El obsceno pájaro de la noche and insularity; and Cien años de soledad and fable. In a synthetic form, the problem of instability in the most transparent region can be seen.