Marin | This article analyzes the representation of violence in the novel El Palacio de la Risa (German Marin, 1995). Request Full-text Paper PDF. Two Chilean writers whose works focus on Villa Grimaldi are Germán Marín (El palacio de la risa, 1995) and Guillermo Calderón (Villa, 2012). Marín, Germán (1995): El Palacio de la Risa. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Planeta. Sauer, Carl (1963): “The Morphology of Landscape”. In: Leighly, John (ed.):