In this article it is showed an approach to the novel Materia Dispuesta, by the Mexican writer Juan Villoro. This analytical approach pretends to elucidate the connection between the literary piece and the environment in which it is created, likewise the historical moment represented in the novel’s anecdote (the earthquake happened in Mexico City in 1985). The above-mentioned has the objective of establishing the author’s aesthetic proposal in this piece and its relationship with the vision that Materia Dispuesta builds on the processes of Modernity and Post modernity in Latin America. For that purpose, it will appeal to the literary and sociological investigations by Mijail Baltin, Zigmunt Baugman, Carlos Monsivais and Octavio Paz between others