Abstract

SANCHEZ, Jaime. El Cristo de Espaldas: perspectives of nomadic hermeneutics to grasp the Colombian violence from a literature standpoint. Recial [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.21, pp.198-207.  Epub Sep 20, 2022. ISSN 2718-658X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v13.n21.37544.

It’s been five years since the signing of the peace dialogues in Colombia and behind it, we still have a society that appears to be immersed in death. Eduardo Caballero Calderon’s work yet to be explored (1910-1993), knew well how to depict that peasant and bipartisan violence which early on portrayed the fate that would accompany the Colombian nation for seven decades. From a diapason hermeneutics, which aims to look back at the past and confront the present, the importance of regional and classic literature is noticed, one which explores everyday life and sheds light in order to understand the present cycles. Rescuing from the work El cristo de espaldas the forms of violence and how the discourses of uprooting and ideological and social exclusion, are transformed into a direct denunciation of a heritage that has not yet been overcome. Through this reflective exercise, a claim appears for that postponed task of consolidating a nation, especially from the standpoint of the participative citizenry, who from their reality should lay bridges with their history, culture, (eliminar coma) and literature in order to understand and signify their present and in this way renounce the weight of that split mentality.

Keywords : bipartisanship; Colombia; nomadic hermeneutics; literature; violence.