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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jorge Catala-CarrascoORCiD
Jaime Bayly’s fourth novel La noche es virgen (1997) attempts to go beyond an existing Peruvian literary discourse based on aspects such as the orality of language, Lima as Arcadia / la horrible and eroticism. Bayly combines those aspects in a non-conformist novel which incorporates the tradition with the ultimate purpose of confronting it. Limeño’s speech flows astonishingly quickly and Lima exceeds contrasting poles in an ungraspable reality. The treatment of eroticism in the novel is studied through the work of Michel Foucault in his trilogy Histoire de la sexualité.
Author(s): Catalá-Carrasco JL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: TONOS: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Filológicos
Year: 2012
Volume: 23
Print publication date: 01/07/2012
Date deposited: 11/06/2013
ISSN (electronic): 1577-6921
Publisher: Universidad de Murcia, Spain
URL: http://www.um.es/tonosdigital/znum23/secciones/estudios-5-la_transgresion_de_la_tradicion.htm
