Editorial - Lima, March 2000
"... the night without coffee coffee stanched insomnia." Palm Sunday.
Unlike the beginning of the century that passed, the letters in our beloved Lima, twenty-first century, are not exclusive activity of the dominant groups or of a political class linked to the country's administration, the literary discourse not only distinct part of official political discourse. So if it is true that here and now, culture in all its forms is developed in diverse socio-political tone, it is regrettable that for the case of literature, the presence of patriotic verse sympathizer and revolutionary opposition pamphlet repeated and significant spaces available.
is known throughout the literary history of our country was great figures who combined great political thoughts and activities with the universal discourse that offered their works, César Vallejo and Javier Heraud, are an example. However, it is sad to note that today in our little world of letters - press universities, cultural centers, literary cafés and bars - get dressed politicians infiltrate poets, philosophers, great thinkers. Anyone who lives in Lima could have stopped breathing in the last week a smelly political air has snuck in some cultural environments of the city against the dictatorship poetry readings, literature and peace, poets for freedom, manifested by a country with a future. But: What is the yardstick to measure the boundary between art and revolution? At what temperature the artist's political fever becomes delirious? When a poem-protest song becomes universal? Is it necessary in the art to target search a political identity?
Taking into account that our environment can not speak of literary criticism without addressing the political issue - despite many studies rely on the interpretation of the conduct of its creators from power, rather than the works themselves - I will patience in waiting to pass the electoral hurricane survivors to assess the works.
Ofeliah. -------------------
(Posted Coffee Send , A4 literature, free distribution, a thousand copies, No. 4, March 2000, Lima, Peru )
Image: Detail painting "HB PA. with her daughter Flora "(F. von Amerling, 1833).
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