El duelo y el tiempo mítico en Rosa Cuchillo y La hora azul

Abstract

In this paper, I propose that the novels Rosa Cuchillo and La hora azul
project individual processes of mourning in a mythical social order that
limits itself to reproduce the phantom of the enclosed nation (Ubilluz) as
a (seudo) proposal to solve the internal conflict that took place in Peru
between 1980-2000. In Rosa Cuchillo the main character, Rosa Cuchillo,
goes through a process of mourning due to the loss of his terrorist son,
Liborio, whereas in La hora azul the main character, Adrián Ormache,
undergoes a process of mourning due to the crisis of the idealized paternal
figure he had of his dead military father. These individual experiences of
mourning result in an opening to the social order by means of the myth
of the eternal return (Debord) in Rosa Cuchillo and the myth of progress
(Benjamin) in La hora azul. Located in a mythical time, the social consequences
of the novels become apparent: they reproduce proposals that
do not question the phantom of the enclosed nation, since Rosa Cuchillo
proposes a pachacuti of runas, whereas La hora azul suggests a form of
tutelary ethics that maintains the status quo.