This article focuses on two novels by Cristián Hunneus as a narrative proposal in which the construction of the Chilean male subject during his childhood and youth is questio- ned. This is a male subject determined and questioned by his own class, the oligarchy. We propose an interpretation centered on the main character of both novels, Gaspar Ruiz, which holds the narrative plot configured by these novels and dialogues from genealogy with Chilean political history of the XX century.En este artículo se reflexiona sobre dos novelas de Cristián Huneeus como una propuesta narrativa donde se problematiza la construcción del sujeto masculino chileno durante su infancia y juventud, sujeto determinado y cuestionado por su clase social, la oligarquía. Se propone una lectura centrada en el personaje central de ambos textos, Gaspar Ruiz, que sostiene el tramado narrativo que configuran ambas novelas, y que dialoga desde la genealogía familiar con la historia política chilena del siglo XX.