TOWARDS A LITERARY CLASSIFICATION OF CANTO DE DOLOR, NO REPITAN LA CANCIÓN. THE STORY OF ALEX BROCCA (1999)

Robles Valencia R. · Metafora (2025) · DOI: 10.36286/mrlad.v3i6.245

Resumen

This article aims to provide a literary classification of the novel Canto de dolor, no repitan la canción. The story of Alex Brocca (1999). Basically, it is proposed that the work falls into the category of confessional autobiography, light literature and learning novel or bildungsroman. In order to support this classification, the characteristics of each term will be presented and a comparison will be made with certain fragments of the novel. The purpose of this is to demonstrate the correspondence between the assigned label and the work. Likewise, the socioeconomic context will be analyzed to show how the cultural factors of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century are closely related to the category given to Brocca’s novel, while it reproduces the idiosyncrasy of Peru at that time. With this procedure, phenomena such as the light is coupled with the format of the chicha diary that penetrates cultural representations such as Brocca’s novel.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos