Abstract

DE LLANO, Aymará. Illuminated trails: Myth and violence in contemporary peruvian novel. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, suppl.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-3123.

We observed two novel ways around the same referent: Sendero Luminoso´s war in Peru since the eighties onwards. This paper considers how the inclusion of the myth, which will allow us to build some initial hypotheses about how these Peruvian productions fall within the broad framework of Latin American literature. The novels selected are Candela quema luceros of Felix Huaman Cabrera (1989), Rosa Cuchillo of Oscar Colchado Lucio (1997), on the other hand, La hora azul, Alonso Cueto (2005) and Sergio Abril rojo Roncagliolo (2007)

Keywords : Peruvian narrative; Sendero Luminoso; Violence; Myth.

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