DISCURSIVE GENRES IN LIMA THE HORRIBLE BY SEBASTIÁN SALAZAR BONDY

Susti A. · Metafora (2024) · DOI: 10.36286/mrlad.v3i6.198

Resumen

The article examines the essay by Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924-1965) Lima la horrible (1964) based on Mijail Bakhtin (1993) notion that “[language] is the product of collective human activity, and reflects in all its elements, both the economic and socio-political organization of the society that has generated it”. In this sense, the presence of two discursive genres proposed by Bakhtin (2011) is established in the essay –the complex secondary and the simple primary– to demonstrate how the author incorporates “direct discursive communication” to give voice to social classes postponed in the representation of the city. As is known, Salazar Bondy directs his attacks at the so-called “Colonial Arcadia” and, implicitly, at the “centralizing forms of language” (Bakhtin) that have prevailed in authors such as Palma, Porras Barrenechea, de la Riva Agüero, Gálvez, among others. However, when developing his criticism of the idyllic vision of the city produced by those authors, Salazar Bondy makes manifest certain inconsistencies that weaken his purpose of becoming the “judge” or “unbribable critic” capable of offering a comprehensive and truthful vision of the city. past and present of the city.

Instituciones: Universidad de Lima