There was a glorious time for the letters of Latin America, very painful for its people, which the dictators was rampant. Civil, military, bloody, illustrated ... He had something for everyone: Porfirio Díaz, Trujillo, Duvalier, Stroessner, Somoza, Pinochet ... And they all had something in common, were meat fiction. And good. Outlandish operetta tyrants who made the grotesque violence and its system of government. Having served in Valle Inclán that kicked out with 'Tirano Banderas' (1923) to a subgenus, the dictators of the novel, which would go a long way. He gladly joined the great masters, from Alejo Carpentier ('The use of the method') and Miguel Angel Asturias ('Mr. President') to Augusto Roa Bastos ('I the Supreme'), Vargas Llosa ("Conversation in the Cathedral ',' The Feast of the Goat ") and García Márquez (The Autumn of the Patriarch).
But today that tradition has run out of steam and not because of missing models. If dictators in the strict sense are only the Castro brothers, many current Latin American leaders who have inherited, through the detour of the polls, the bad manners of the old tyrants Chavez, Uribe, Zelaya, Ortega, Correa ... Non remember Fujimori, Menem, and so on. Now in full Chavez rematch of brawl-Spain, five Latin American writers respond to our question: What political leader of the continent is best suited to revive the genre?
"Some of these politicians would not be out in our family saga: 'One Hundred Years of satrapy' or something," said Juan Gabriel Alonso Cueto Peruvian Vásquez.El not doubt. "Chávez to portray is a bizarre figure. Like Evo Morales, the country has been confused with him. Embody this idea of \u200b\u200ba country, typical of dictators, is of incalculable mythomania. The problem is that this is a comic character, even ridiculous, but not tragic, "he explains, which would take away points. And Cueto knows what he speaks because he was faced with Fujimori and his sinister henchman, Vladimiro Montesinos, the 'Great looks. "
His countryman Santiago Cueto Roncagliolo coincides with both the character and in their stick. "I choose to Hugo Chavez, but not authoritarian, but for theatrical reasons. Sings, dances, screams, swears. Nor would a novel by tyrants in the classic sense. Would further a comedy, "says acidly.
these lines also placed Colombia's Juan Gabriel Vásquez, although not name names, but fairly clear allusions. Of so I doubt the author of 'The Secret History of Costaguana' is the genus. "Some of these politicians would not be out in our family saga: 'One Hundred Years of satrap", or something. At another I see it more in science fiction, because it can predict the future: once said he would remain in power until the year 2031, "Vasquez said, referring to the famous Chavez threatens to perpetuate by decree until that date.
The narrator and Hispanic Uruguayan poet Cristina Peri Rossi, however, prefer a much stronger tyrant of the old school. "Failure to write the novel by Videla, because he was a Catholic military, convinced that practicing 'The Well' and fighting "evil." Received communion and read the Bible, while from the aircraft tortured prisoners hurled into the sea. His wife, moreover, assumed to children of women who died in torture convinced, too, practicing 'good'. These environments seem so polarized fascinating, "he explains.
Daniel Ortega, a classic. "However, rather than the paradigmatic figure Chavez," to me, as a Mexican, I find most interesting a novel or a biography of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and his family, the great villain of our recent history, "he confesses.
And we have not forgotten anyone this overwhelming fascination with Chavez? "Chavez is pretty good for a novel," says Cuban poet and journalist Raul Rivero (tyrants who knows more than anyone). "It is certainly more inspiring than Raúl Castro, Evo Morales or Correa, which are rather flat characters. The Kirchner are more interested, of course. But I'd take Daniel Ortega, by the whole affair so dark passions and loves. "Do not give more details, better save for 'the novel' that is yet to write.
So things: with Chavez making his and many other models equally valid, why the novel is dying today, dictators? "is that tyrants are not what they were. Pinochet was a psychopathic murderer. Videla abducted children. Trujillo was sleeping with women of their minions. The do nothing now that. to submit to elections, even democratic, "he replies mischievously Roncagliolo.
But each narrator explains in his way:" For the new generations feel a deep disappointment when no mess, slow to politics, and because since the advent of democracy are political scientists who deal with political analysis that previously took out the fiction writers, "says Volpi. Instead, Vasquez is interpreted as a natural death in the genus by sheer exhaustion. "If one believes, as I think that literature works best when it sheds light on dark areas, while exploring what no one has explored, it makes little sense to rewrite 'The use of method', let alone 'The Fall patriarch '. "
To Cueto is that "corruption and violence have spread throughout society," and today no longer need American storytellers It focuses on dictators, that once monopolized, to account for them. "There are other characters on the social scene like the above, racists, drug dealers, the new yuppies, who have replaced dictators as emblems of society," says the Peruvian.
All agree that the tyrants and no novel dazzles most ambitious feathers, but the political dimension in American fiction remains crucial. "In a broad sense, everything is political, from how to buy or make love to the use of time. So in Latin America is political literature, but not strictly political issues, "says Peri Rossi. And Vasquez complete the same idea: "In other words, since there are no politicians in the political novels. Private lives are swept away by the consequences of what we call public life. And maybe that is more interesting. "
A narrative turnaround perhaps the only injured person is Chávez, the Venezuelan leader seems to cry out a master storyteller who turns his dubious exploits in a relentless and masterly novel. As before ...
Source: Mundo.es.
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