Un universo encrespado. Cincuenta años de El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo

Lima: Editorial Horizonte (Colección Crítica Literaria), 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 244p., photos, bibl., wrps. New. Item #79287
ISBN: 9786124859144

Fifty years after the publication of The Fox Above and the Fox Below, this collective volume is proposed as an invitation to read. The posthumous work of José María Arguedas constitutes a point of advance in the exploration of a new language for the Latin American novel. It is one of those difficult classics due to the complexity of its codification and, at the same time, Arguedas' most personal and delicate book, managing to transcend the conventions of literary fiction and installing the discomfort of an era in the reader's body. Because what the writer captures in the pages of his latest novel is the tension between the forces of capital that vampirize the lives of workers and the unequal fight that men and women in the Peruvian cities express equally from the will to survive. . This persistence of life despite death has multiple directions. Some of them have been addressed by the critical readings gathered in this book in a heartfelt tribute to the trail that Arguedas' work leaves us. The unpublished essays, testimonies, and interviews with Sybila Arredondo de Arguedas, included in this collection, calibrate the future scope of Arguedas' writing, not only identifying the demolishing machine of men and souls that was Chimbotana's industrialization, but also the creative force, in in the midst of that adversity, of migration and mixing. Between the precariousness of a Chimbote that was beginning to show the deep cracks of peripheral modernization, the social and political convulsion of a Peru that was giving way to dictatorships and extremist movements, and the special understanding that the writer expresses of the tragic world events of those years. like the vietnam war Arguedas feels that he is driven by a "cool universe" that hasn't given up much since he was a child. And although the novel, and the staging of its completion, drags the writer with it, the size of his effort remains as an announcement that reminds us to resist.

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