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José María Arguedas

Homenaje a José María Arguedas Altamirano, celebrated author of Apurimac, for the centenary of his birth

All blood

The famous novel All blood the great writer José María Arguedas apurimeño initiatives on the suicide of the "Old Man", Sir Andrew Aragon Peralta, landowner and patriarch saw gamonal rich man whose death comes the destruction of feudal lineage. "The old man groping up the stone steps leading as a tunnel to the top of the tower ... reached the bells .. Was a holiday and the crowd went beyond to the atrium. Men and women of the village and annexes near and far had come to hear Mass ... (The old) was dressed in frock coat, white shirt, tie old, shiny silk, stirring in the air. - Listen, damn! Damn people! Cursed cure! Square Damn! --- - Gentlemen, and I will die!. Hear my last will, from this point that God is not only ... The bells do not play for the only cure ... The tower is not God. It's mine. ... Listen to me k'anras (dirty)-Te ... Swap priest was waiting for hosts! ... Your prayers are canned and do not go to heaven, follows the recipe layk'as (sorcerers) ... the antichrist is the cure ... dung, akatank'a (insect whose habitat is the stool) ... You, the Indians are to enter through the front door to my house (when I die) in front of it as the owners! I have as witnesses the people and their cure. ... And take home as mine. My wife still locked in her room with Gertrudes .. I preach revenge, gentlemen! .. his hands trembled. "It's not cowardice, is alcoholism ... The old man's body convulsed weakly, had a little foam on his mouth." And so the old committed suicide by taking poison.

The novel is woven into the hatred between the sons of old, Mr. Bruno (feudal landlord mentality cream) and Fermin (the mentality of a typical bourgeois businessman who wanted to see modernity in the mountains). Likewise, the novel in its 604 pages, recreates the social complexities that arise regarding the operation of the mine Aparcora in which the multinational company, driven by appetites acquisitions, create objective conditions for social unrest led peasant Lahuaymarca an Indian Willca Rendón, who had attended school, had been in Lima and knew what the ruling class and led a major rebellion against the prevailing system.

Also, in this novel made famous Arguedas, besides those already mentioned, some other Quechua words: Punaruna (Indian), Salk'a (wild, ignorant), Maula (traitor, felon), Alk'o (coward) , Chascha (adulete) Wak'ate (coward, crybaby), Saccra (devil, antichrist), K'echa (weak character.)

Moreover, there is an extraordinary book, Arguedas letters written by John V. Murra, I recommend reading to learn quasi-private life of José María Arguedas. In this book, Murra, great personal friend Arguedas, refers, for example, the hardships of a José María no money in your pocket and also about what it meant to him (José María) the "Mama Lola Hoffman, a psychiatrist. As is known, Arguedas committed suicide with a shot in the head while a professor at the Universidad Agraria La Molina, then Arguedas was also a teacher of San Marcos.

Jaime Guardia, Huamanga charanguista famous, now, to continue providing the melodies of her ancient songs Ayacucho charango, a personal friend of José María, like the Andean sentimental virtuoso violinist Max Damian and sincerely enjoyed their music and as the scissors dancers. Arguedas's novel focuses All blood Jaime Guardia, saying thus: "A Jaime Guardia, of the town of Pause, to whom the music of Peru is like fire red and crying without limits."

Yawar fiesta, Rivers deep, the sixth, the fox the fox up and down, The agony of Rasu Niti and others are the works of José María Arguedas has become a universal size apurimeño writer.

PRAISE THE NOBEL PRIZE Mario Vargas Llosa ALTAMIRANO JOSE MARIA ARGUEDAS
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appreciation and admiration expressed the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa at different times to José María Arguedas, recognizing his greatness: "By his beautiful prose, the delicacy of its themes and message of love and faith in the Indian village of his stories and novels, José María Arguedas is one of the best storytellers of contemporary Peru, his work All blood is one of the most constructive "(" In the Peruvian writer, "1955," El Comercio "). "José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa continues," is a simple man, hardworking and no big ambitions, has had a childhood and youth harsh. Arguedas has never sought fame or fortune. " (Reprinted by the magazine The Sunday 10/10/1910).

But the best tribute that makes award-winning Peruvian writer José María Arguedas is in his speech in Sweden on December 7, 2010 when it received the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010. The following extract from his speech:

"A compatriot of mine, José María Arguedas, Peru called the country of" all the blood. " Do not think there formula to define it better. That we are and that all Peruvians have inside, like it or not: a sum of traditions, races, creeds and cultures from the four cardinal points. I feel proud heir of the Hispanic cultures that made fabrics and feather cloaks Nazca and Paracas and Mochica and Inca ceramics on display in the best museums in the world, the builders of Machu Picchu, the Great Chimu, Chan Chan, Kuelap, Sipan, the Witch and huacas of the Sun and the Moon, and English, with his saddlebags, swords and horses, brought to Peru to Greece, Rome, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Renaissance, Cervantes, Quevedo and Gongora, and language of Castilla brunt of the Andes softened. And that also came with Spain Africa with his vigor, his music and his effervescent imagination to enrich the diversity Peru. If we dig a little we found that Peru, like Borges's Aleph, is in small format worldwide. What an extraordinary privilege for a country that has no identity because it has them all! "

( praise of reading and fiction , Speech by Mario Vargas Llosa on December 7, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden).

José María Arguedas in Wikipedia

Altamirano José María Arguedas, born in Andahuaylas on 18 January 1911y died in Lima on December 2, 1969. He was a writer, anthropologist and ethnologist Peru. As a writer is the author of novels and stories that have been be considered as one of the three major representatives of Indian power in Peru, along with Ciro Alegría and Manuel Scorza.

introduced in the Indian literature a richer insight and incisive. The fundamental question that arises in his works is a country divided in two cultures (the Andean Quechua and urban European roots), to be integrated into a harmonious relationship of mixed character. The major dilemmas, anxieties and hopes that this project poses are the core of his vision.

His work as an anthropologist and social scientist has not been widespread, despite its importance and influence he had in his literary work. It should be noted his study of Peruvian folklore, particularly Andean music, the matter had a very narrow contact with singers, musicians and dancers of scissors and several dancers from all regions of Peru. His contribution to the appreciation of Indian art, especially reflected in the huayno and dance, has been very important.

was also a translator and disseminator of Quechua literature, ancient and modern occupations all he shared with his charges of a civil servant and teacher.