Nothing more suggestive, mysterious and fascinating as a vampire. Among imaginary creatures, the hero-antihero is more effective in the world of fiction. Among the real people, is the most attractive radiate or more emulation generates, perhaps because of his success in the field of seduction and sedition, possibly for having conquered death, and most likely to be forever young, impetuous and overwhelming. From a strict point of view Dionysian, that is, everything related to the cult of blood and darkness, a vampire is what every human being wants to be hard, but most religions, including Catholic make every effort to turn this deep longing and at the same time and for that matter, reinforce and perpetuate.
This character as disturbing as dazzling is no stranger to the great literary tradition of Peru. who dwell in the shadows. Sieges the vampire in Peruvian narrative , an anthology prepared by researchers and Gonzalo Honors Elton Portals, reflects this, but especially the particular turn or offending many of the stories selected. These, no doubt, involve more than a contribution, an enrichment of the traditional figure of the vampire, from the mythical Amazon legend that opens the book, entitled "Jincham, the Aguaruna that he became a vampire, "to the stories collected recently (in 2008) Windows books and other fictions true opposite of Charles Germain Amezaga and lost battles Alfredo Dammert.
If we start with the beginning, "Jincham, the Aguaruna who became a vampire" is an oral history was recorded in full in 1974. This is a good start, as an oral story takes us to a much earlier time, but with the trap of doing absolutely inaccurate. In this story there is no evidence that allows us to infer the historical moment, is almost magical entrance to the "There was a time" or "once upon a time ', except near the end, which mentions a kerosene lamparín, so this version could not be earlier than the second half of the nineteenth century. But it is also likely that an earlier version without the reference to Western lost in the dark night time.
This story, as a starting point of the anthology is doubly challenging. This is a story outside the Western literary tradition, which raises the origin of vampire and human bloodily calls into question the ambivalent character of the typical western vampire: apparently a human being (as the first meaning of the English Language Dictionary ), veiled an animal (as described in the second sense). The selection of the story in this anthology denotes the will to integrate our literary tradition to life by an unwritten record usually is not taken into account or, worse, he disdains because it is not sufficient reason territorial inclusion to our concept of official culture. In considering this report affirm the ancient character of our literary, discourse and expand our cultural horizons, and build better channels and communicating vessels to incorporate the other (strange and different) in the dialogue.
The second section of the book (referred to written literature) consists of twenty-four stories. The sort order has been alphabetically by author. Therefore, researchers get around the tiring task of proposing a reading that is more ideological useless and distracting than helpful. The convenient random alphabetical order allows the reader to better enjoy the volume without the additional pressure that often underlie aesthetic idea in this kind of endeavor. In fact, Honors and Portals raise all they have to be expressed in his paths introductions. In these, both throw light on almost everything relevant to the figure of the vampire which can weigh more enjoyment and scope of the selected stories. The texts do not rehearse the subject or total completion. Instead, they propose the continuation of what we both have looked. Honors aims in particular a classification of texts that have the vampire as a subject of the action, and from this perspective suggests three periods of the figure or motive for this character. Portals, in addition, develops the figure of the vampire from the universal aspect and illustrated, to land in the plane of the Peruvian. But most important of the proposed two is that today we have a conceptually unprecedented and surprising book that brings to twenty Peruvian authors.
Without wishing to repeat, reiterate or result in correctly expressed by both researchers, interest was directed to go into a slot that could go unnoticed. This loophole, would relate to some extent with the tedium of virtue. In other words, the transgression of the moral order which involves the figure of the vampire to achieve a full phase of supremacy, which would become an ethics and aesthetics of this character as a hero or, in any case, as protagonist who spread their need survival to the reader. This does not refer to the narrative technique of taking the point of view of the antihero, to engage the reader with the inner self and develop empathize with the villain of the story. Rather, it refers to the fact of showing the vampire not a human murderer, but in their own biological code, or non-human species, which has its own rules, regulations and laws of existence and survival.
From this point of view, is that many stories go beyond the Manichean scheme: good in one corner and the evil of another, when the truth is that there are countless gray from white to black. This is true regardless of whether the story is told in first person, a typical device for engaging the reader with the perversions of the antihero, like the story "First Time" de Amezaga or "A poem of love after death" Cynthia Zegarra. The jump is seen in most accounts of who dwell in the shadows is a more conceptual and philosophical, which explores the inner world of the vampire, with its vagaries, contradictions and certainties which seeks rather than scare or instill restlessness or anxiety , explore the ancient knowledge of a species with individuals 'immortal'.
Such is the case of the story "Gyula" Carlos Calderón Fajardo where the limits of the vampire go beyond the classic and typical coined by the poor dream factory that is Hollywood. Decadent, absurd, dreamy and unusual, but not strictly fantasy, this story takes us into a delightful story of lust, infidelity and betrayal, avoiding the kitsch of a hackneyed love story.
Another story that explores areas not very typical of the vampire, and thought-provoking from the absolute decadence substrate serves as the narrative is "Angela's comfort 'Alfredo Dammert. As the story goes mutations are revealed biological and ethical implications of a new humanity, after an alleged global catastrophe in the The figure of the vampire takes on a rather special status.
From the humor and irony, Rodolfo Hinojosa, with its tale of Dracula memories, check vampire's hand designed by Bram Stoker in his most famous literary work. Full of winks and scholars concerning finely embedded in the world of avant-garde, especially surrealism, the solution of the dispute raised by Hinojosa-how to feed the world's overpopulation of vampires, is suspended in a very successful ending.
In the same vein of sarcasm, Luis Felipe Angell, "Sofocleto 'short story presents a witty, sharp and surprising, that demystifies the figure of the vampire and join a series of logistical problems that must be met to maintain order food. In addition, other micro-stories, written in the key dramatic, but just as efforts to expand the universe vampire to unconventional boundaries are the words' Interior vampire "Carlos Herrera," The balberito "Fernando Iwasaki and" Vampires "of Paul Nicoli .
Undoubtedly the most surprising story in the collection compiled by Honours and Portals is the nouvelle "The Bankheil castle "Alejandro de la Jara Saco Lanfranco, which was published in Buenos Aires in 1945 as part of a collection of horror literature. In fact, a discovery and a great addition to the great literary tradition of Peru, because we have a very coherent story develops deliciously vampiric world. In this nouvelle , which handles Neatly neatness and sense of intrigue, is the mark of a nineteenth-century narrative, however, the Manichean scheme is flexible. The author goes beyond the polarizing forces that move the world. Explains the phenomenon as a kind ancient vampire, and this is very close to achieving a stage full of supremacy from the transgression of the moral order explained above. Are expected soon with more information on this author who died in the 1960's.
Finally, we conclude this comment on who dwell in the shadows. Sieges the vampire in Peruvian narrative , ignoring a significant body of texts that deserve more than a mere mention, at least several paragraphs to refer to its literary quality. Among these, it is considered appropriate to refer an escape fantasy fiction and that, however, has a very well deserved in this anthology, despite its narrative shortcomings. It is' Holy Pio and mistress of Dracula "by Isaac Felipe Montoro, a realist text that plays with supernatural vampire figure to emphasize the existence of the worst vampire of all, the politician who is bleeding the people with their deplorable proceed as well as referred to in Dictionary of English in the third sense of the word "vampire" greedy person who abuses or takes advantage of others.
