Small novel analysis with ashes
Introduction
The 1980s meant for Peru its democratic re -eighth, after more than a decade of miliar dictatorship. Together with democracy, terrorism and cracking came not only of civil institutions but also of the future confidence in the future. National literature, traditionally attentive to politics, and also radical experiment changes, thus configuring a new panorama whose career is still hesitant. After this near the 1990s, the country was with hyperinflation, poverty, terrorism and centralization, in 1990 two candidates are presented for the Presidency, Alberto Fujimori and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Developing
Each one with different proposals, on the one hand Vargas Llosa said if the shock and Fujimori said not the shock, that is when Fujimori won, it is the case where the economic shock is given which consisted. What is the true meaning of the title "Small novel with ashes"? Yrigoyen takes it as something metaphorical, because it refers to the ashes that remain of certain vital relationships of his mother with his mother, with other people and was the one who tries to recover from a great fire for a long time of shadow in his life that prevented himGrow in some way, the issues that addresses are personal issues that reveals throughout the novel.
Especially those related to his father who were very difficult to count for Yrigoyen as he mentions in the book: “Writing about my father, on the other hand, is tortuous, uncomfortable, produces an immense annoyance every four or five lines, a feeling of a feeling oflack of air and abandonment. I barely encourage me to write half of what I remember;And when I finally decide to stage it in this book, I just can show pale, blurred silhouettes of the images that vibrate in my head and that were numbing so many years.’One of the author’s needs was not hiding.
If not reveal the situations lived with his father who felt hatred and at the same time compassion;The personal cost of this can be high, but hiding it was even greater. Yrigoyen from a young age lived traumatic and painful episodes like many of us, many people decide. How did Pasolini influence the author’s life? José Carlos Yrigoyen felt that the relationships he had with Pasolini were not only artistic, but real experiences, he perceived a great attraction both for the things he told and also for the images of his films and for his life in itself.
His admiration and addiction for him had a lot to do with everything Yrigoyen wrote, that is why I influence both him and his way of thinking as we see in the following fragment: “Pasolini understood from a young age that the only way to escapeof a totalitarian power was through emulation.’In such a way Yrigoyen felt that they had similar thoughts. On the other hand, the presence of Pier Paolo had been decisive in such difficult times as the ones he counts in the book;At first this book was born as an essay on Pasolini, certain things that had happened to him as the correspondence he had with Pier Paolo whom he admired so much and the similarity of experience with his.
The author feels that everything he tells in this book also had a relationship with what Pier Paolo lived;It is in this way that this novel makes a parallel among the life of the protagonist in this case of José Carlos Yrigoyen, with the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, there are many similarities with these two characters, at some point they also repel;However, they are united by the issue of seeking freedom which implies an immolation, a sacrifice and that cost is worth it for the author, he in case of seeking that freedom cost him a period of great depression and personal destabilization, inPasolini’s case cost him life.
Why is there a discursive revenge and not a material? There is a discursive revenge because it is based on the poetry that the author writes for many years and many of those poems were a form of resistance and rebellion before an authoritarian and oppressive power, the character of the novel had no chance of expressing a rebellion of aDirectly, his father was a figure that infused a lot of dread so poetry is an act of rebellion, just as Yrigoyen tells us in the following fragment: writing poetry was for me a subversive and provocative way to answer my father, who was so afraid that it was impossible for me to challenge it frontally.
conclusion
Almost all the poems I wrote were aimed at him, even in those where he least shows. He knew about the disgust that homosexuality produced, which considered the worst of conceivable aberrations. This revenge that consciously or unconsciously had a result after all, since José Carlos struggled to bother his father who was shocked when reading them and felt shame of thinking about the possibility that other people were read;In this way we understand that poetry was for Yrigoyen an adjustment of accounts, in the most complicated and hard moments it was a retaliation.
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