Iqueño Microcosm – Tradition Masks

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To his achievements as a poet and quick story author, along with the relevance of his
fruitful work as an editor and cultural supervisor, César Panduro Astorga (Ica,
1980), has been including these of a proficient novelist (A rose subsequent to me
pie, 2012, and Lives of clay, 2017) that just lately matured artistically
in a bigger, advanced and polyphonic work: Dying the Sky (The Rely)
Plebeyo editores, 318 pp.). A exceptional microcosm of his hometown that
delves into social, political, felony, psychological and cultural points.
Set within the 90s, it begins by specializing in 4
characters who reside in the identical villa. They mobilize the 4 axes of the
novel:

• Castilla, who “grew to become a policeman to kill with permission” (p. 16).
  reference to it, the world of crime and violence is addressed
  repressive, since he was in Pampahuasi the place he was nearly lynched, being
  saved by Commander Del Águila who orders him to return to Ica and
  is ordered to infiltrate the college to detect troublemakers and, above all,
  terrorists. On the college he’ll meet Estela, whom he abandons
  pregnant.
• A priest who has misplaced his religion. He establishes the sphere of beliefs
  spiritual: evangelical pastors and, particularly, healers with powers
  psychics and magical rituals (“Ica is land of healers”, p. 118).
• Chacaltana, an sincere APRA professor. He carries the sphere of the
  politics and reflection on nationwide identification. Two stand out right here
  Noble characters, with aesthetic sensitivity and wishes for a greater Peru: the
  Professor Ramirez (Estela’s father), admirer of Abraham Valdelomar, for
  his literary works and for his civic-patriotic fervor; and the coed Rojas
  (loves Estela), an anarchist who bets on the countercultural energy of the
  music: “punk, steel, hardcore and rock normally” (p. 230).
• A prostitute whom her shopper Ernesto calls “Tamara”. Ernesto
  He’s in love with Ana, who’s concerned with a married professor. Tamara is
  falls hopelessly in love with Ernesto.

Briefly, a considerable microcosm of society and, on the identical time, of the
Present narrative traits: political violence, the homicide thriller
in collection, fantastic realism, melodrama, the countercultural possibility and the
studying story.