Written jointly by the poet Franco Salcedo and the narrator Mariano Vargas (both graduates of the PUCP) novel Homo demens (Estruendomudo) is surely one of the most unorthodox literary proposals and controversial 2010. It tells the fictional dismemberment of the famous historian and sociologist Nelson Manrique, allegedly occurred on October 29, 1994, and the subsequent fate of the main suspect, Dr. Armando Vargas.
Violent and hallucinating, in the manner of Robert Rodriguez films (more than the aforementioned Quentin Tarantino), this novel is raised just like a movie: from the short sequences that integrate to the curious "division" final in which people are told what "real" characters are based. To this must be added including full pages of newspapers and radio news pieces and television.
Salcedo Vargas & have tried and given us a different version-questioning, poetic and ironic that the crimes were often committed in the years of political violence, questioning the way some of the most characteristic elements of the "Peru" of our time, but only managed to do so in a few episodes of this short novel (86 pages). Homo demens is, therefore, as a somewhat irregular work, an interesting project that deserved a wider development.
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Other texts on Homo ludens: Giancarlo Peña,
Interviews: Michael A. Vallejo.
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