The portrayal of violence on Rodrigo Rey Rosa's Piedras Encantadas (2001): an aesthetics construction

Abstract

This article brings up a look on Central America literature, based on a study of the book Piedras Encantadas (2001), from the contemporary Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa.In this romance, it is observed the construction of space from the perspective of violence, either representative, textual, from the characters that are present on the descriptions made, by the lexicon choice or by historical facts inserted in the work, portraying a Guatemala built and rooted in various scopes of violence. The writing of Rey Rosa is singular by his particular approach on the use of violence with the perspective that, in his writings, the violence is not only an element for discussion that makes the reader reflect about it, but it also enables the construction of the narrative from its peculiar traces bolstered by other aspects of the work. As theorical framework, this article elaborates on studies from Chilean author Ariel Dorfman (1972) about dimensions of violence in literature and explanations from Schøllhammer (2013) about this subject.