(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Pérez Hernández, Diego Octavio
The purpose of this article is to interpret the use of infernal imagery in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo. The defended hypothesis argues that the symbolic realm of Comala is a hellish purgatory, one without hope. Thus, the novel implies a contravention of the hopeful connotations associated with the so-called Mexican Miracle, not only because infernal despair is the antithesis of the optimism linked to the capitalist development that Mexico pursued, but also because this hopelessness is the result of the abandonment by a series of administrations that favored industrial interests at the expense of the educational needs of large segments of the population.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Lee Penagos, Juan Camilo
In this article, we will present two forms of “heresy” in the work of Manuel Zapata Olivella as a novelist and cultural critic during the 1960s. First, we will observe how, in his novel En Chimá nace un santo, the heretical actions of the inhabitants of Chimá pose a direct affront to the legitimacy of the ecclesiastical authority, which derives, at the same time, in the exercise of repressive violence by the state authorities and, in a certain way, in the political awareness of the Chimaleros. Secondly, we will explore how the exercise of cultural and literary criticism that Zapata Olivella carried out in the magazine Letras Nacionales and other publications during the 1960s can also be considered “heretical” in the context of the struggles for cultural legitimacy within the emerging Colombian literary field. This parallelism or “homology” will be constructed from the point of view of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture and his field theory.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Candia-Cáceres, Alexis
In this study, we present an analysis of the representation of eroticism and sexual violence in Andrea Marurana’s narrative: (Des)encuentros (des) esperados (1992), El daño (1997) and No decir (2006). By employing a series of resources drawn from literary theory, gender studies, philosophy and psychology, it is proposed that her writing can be interpreted using the notion of “metastasis of desire”, a concept that accounts for both the transformation and dissemination that desire undergoes in her novels and stories, as well the harmful effects of unethical and illegitimate enjoyment.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Cavagnaro Farfán, Franco
The enunciated principle of two complementary elements from two different civilizations (harmonia oppositorum / yanantin) converges in Eielson’s poetic and plastic work to create. In his work, the city of Rome serves as a platform center that enables him to rediscover cosmological ways of seeing that connect different levels. For this article, we use Habitación en Roma, his articles from the 1950s, as well as statements made in the 1970s, 1980s, and in the 21st century. From the vestige, the creation of objects is replicated in his poetic and visual work and in his procedures with matter. Through this, it is possible to transform and be transformed after reaching moments of ultra-consciousness.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Arancet Ruda, María Amelia
According to critics, Viel Temperley is an Argentine mystical poet, but here we address a different facet, operative in relation to subjective representation and the encoding of a worldview: the iteration of military figurations, especially those of the soldier and its variants, in texts, paratexts and epitexts the latter, crucial in this work to validate the explored inclination, also supported by extraliterary documents. There is a multivocal repertoire of soldiery themes, deeply rooted in Argentine history and, furthermore, associated with the masculine imaginary of a particular era. This repertoire constructs the masculine self, but according to a subverted and destabilizing version, which ranges from love to heroism, even to the freedom of poetry. Due to this anti-system dissent, the figure of Juan Lavalle, dear to our author, is a kind of double in several compositions, and it sheds light on some of the meanings that soldiery acquires in Viel’s work.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-18) Esteban, Ángel
Specialized critics have so far insisted on the impact of Kafka as a narrator on Ribeyro’s stories, consistently in the same direction: it would be a direct influence on the stories written in the late forties and early fifties, texts from his youth with some fantastic or absurd element, and during a formative period in which the man from Lima had not yet developed his own voice. However, the most intense and profound presence of Kafka in Ribeyro is found in his diaries, and not so much in the themes or style, but in the common characteristics of “spiritual kinship” embedded in the realm of sensitivity and in how they both construct themselves as artists.
