The Andean pre-Hispanic world in the genesis of José María Arguedas’s novel work

Abstract

The findings of a second reading of the most sequenced novels of the Arguedian work: Yawar Fiesta, Los ríos profundos and Todas las sangres show a strength of the previous Andean world, operating as a cultural memory converted into literary expression in which fictions are linked with their fictionalized representation. The integration of art (music and dance) in this sample of Nature as lived by the Andean peoples is made possible by the use of their own cognitive systems, which the writer seeks to recreate literarily with his life experience.