by José María Arguedas · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437613215
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«Los ríos profundos» is the novel by Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
The novel tells the story of Ernesto, a young man who grows up between Andean culture and the oppression of rural Peru. Arguedas combines the Quechua imaginary, oral tradition, music and dance with the conventions of the Western novel to explore identity, transculturation and the search for justice.
Edition by Ricardo González Vigil in the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 392), 9th edition of 2006, published in Spain.
For readers of Latin American fiction and of narrative about cultural identity and Andean heritage.
José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas's living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
