Abstract

BENEDETTO, Matías Di. Drunkenness and revolution in La violencia del tiempo by Miguel Gutiérrez. CELEHIS [online]. 2021, n.42, pp.21-30. ISSN 2313-9463.

In the novel La violencia del tiempo, the organizing axis of what is narrated is the shamanic experience, a moment capable of installing a baroque poetic that sustains a polyphonic unfolding. A narrator turned historian named Martín Villar reviews the genealogy of his surname from the Cangará region in Piura, an initial situation that is sustained through a recurrent consumption of San Pedro, a substance that allows him to travel different time lines, thus giving rise to a Contrapuntal narrative logic that intermingles the events linked to the popular insurrection known as the Paris Commune, which occurred between the months of March and May 1871, and the uprising of the Chalaco community members in the Piura region that occurred more than ten years later, in January 1883. The condensation of dissimilar temporalities exposes a return to the past as well as opens narrative lines that expose the coexistence of an Andean imaginary with Western cultural knowledge. Through drug-literary practices, Gutiérrez shows a set of compositional transformations that function as catalysts for a particular work of writing: by experimenting with disciplinary materials of various kinds, he draws attention to how the literary imagination operates pharmacologically.

Keywords : Drunkenness; Chamán; Assemblage; Drugs; Paris Commune.

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