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PERÚ 2008<br />

24<br />

ESPECIAL APEC / APEC SPECIAL CuLTuRAL / CuLturAL<br />

y diversidad expresiva son Miguel Gutiérrez (1940) -aunque<br />

publicó su primera novela en 1969-, Alonso Cueto (1954) y<br />

Jaime Bayly (1965), entre muchos otros.<br />

En los años 80 del siglo pasado, el Perú entró en un nuevo<br />

trance social, como consecuencia del violento accionar del<br />

grupo terrorista Sendero Luminoso. La narrativa peruana no<br />

ha tardado en hurgar en esa dolorosa temática, comenzando<br />

por Vargas Llosa, quien se aproxima a este asunto en novelas<br />

como Historia de Mayta y Lituma en los Andes. Más tarde, dos<br />

de los más jóvenes escritores peruanos de la actualidad, Santiago<br />

Roncagliolo (1975) y Daniel Alarcón (1977) también han<br />

incursionado en esta temática en sus celebradas novelas Abril<br />

rojo y Radio Ciudad Perdida, respectivamente. Un tercer libro<br />

sobre esta temática es la colección de cuentos Toda la sangre.<br />

Antología de cuentos sobre la violencia política en el Perú.<br />

En este siglo XX, la literatura peruana continúa abriéndose<br />

a nuevos mundos. Enrique Congrains, uno de los iniciadores,<br />

hace más de 50 años, de la narrativa urbana en el Perú,<br />

acaba de publicar una novela de ciencia ficción titulada 999<br />

palabras para el planeta Tierra, cuyo punto de partida es el<br />

arribo, muy cerca de las líneas de Nazca, de una nave espacial<br />

con el encargo de pedirles a los terrícolas que se presenten<br />

ante el resto del universo con un artículo de 999<br />

palabras que se publicará en la Gran Enciclopedia<br />

Intergaláctica.n<br />

Peru was well underway to becoming another country, with<br />

new players and social complaints, and a much more complex<br />

everyday panorama. It was marked by a growing city and<br />

an internationalized society, by the appearance of a newer<br />

and bigger emerging urban group – that of the grandchildren<br />

of the immigrants from the 40’s and 50’s- and, above al, ethnic<br />

and cultural fusion, perceivable from music to language to<br />

gastronomy and social life. Peruvian narrative starts to open<br />

itself up to cosmopolitan topics. It even goes back to the fields<br />

and to the Andes from an urban perspective, and the passage<br />

into the 21st Century is assumed naturally and with a universal<br />

vision.<br />

Key players of this new multi-themed and diverse thematic<br />

are Miguel Gutiérrez (1940) (though he published his first<br />

novel in 1969), Alonso Cueto (1954) and Jaime Bayly (1965),<br />

among many others.<br />

In the 1980’s, Peru went into a new social trance as a<br />

consequence of the violent acts by the terrorist group Shining<br />

Path. Peruvian narrative didn’t take long in digging into<br />

this painful issue, starting by Vargas Llosa who approached the<br />

subject in novels such as “The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta”<br />

and “Death in the Andes”. Later on, two of the youngest Peruvian<br />

writers of current times, Santiago Roncagliolo (1975)<br />

and Daniel Alarcon (1977) also delved into the subject in<br />

their celebrated novels in “Abril rojo” and “Lost City Radio”,<br />

respectively. A third book on this matter is in the storybook<br />

collection “Toda la sangre. Antología de cuentos sobre la violencia<br />

política en el Perú.”<br />

In this Century, Peruvian literature keeps on opening<br />

itself up to new worlds. Enrique Congrains, one of the<br />

starters of Urban Peruvian Narrative over 50 years ago,<br />

just published a science fiction novel titled “999 palabras<br />

para el planeta Tierra”. Its starting point is the arrival of a<br />

spaceship very close to the Nazca Lines. The spaceship<br />

has been given instructions to ask Earthlings to introduce<br />

themselves to the universe with a 999-word article<br />

that shall be published in the Grand Intergalactic<br />

Encyclopedia.n

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