LA TRANSGRESIÓN DE LA TRADICIÓN: LA NOCHE ES VIRGEN (1997) DE JAIME BAYLY
Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco
Resumen
La noche es virgen (1997), cuarta novela de Jaime Bayly, pretende transgredir un discurso literario peruano ya existente y basado en aspectos como la oralidad del lenguaje, Lima como Arcadia / la horrible o el erotismo. Bayly combina dichos aspectos en una novela inconformista que incorpora la tradición con el propósito último de confrontarla. El habla limeña fluye con sorprendente agilidad y Lima excede sus opuestos en una realidad inaprensible. El tratamiento del erotismo en la novela se estudia a través de la trilogía de Michel Foucault Histoire de la sexualité.
ABSTRACT
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.
ABSTRACT
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.
erotismo, literatura peruana, oralidad, espacio carcelario
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