Alfredo Bryce Echenique entre lo periférico y lo transnacional

In several essays included in penultimate writings Bryce Echenique focuses on the tension between Peruvian identity and transnational projection, a recurring theme in his novelistic and essayistic work. Specifically, it teaches how Peru and Latin America in general are victims of stereotypes formulated from abroad or from the national communities themselves. These archetypes reflect a complex of cultural inferiority and put Peru in a peripheral position against the European and American intellectual hegemonies. Paradoxically, the author takes advantage of this marginalization to induce an ironic perspective that, coupled with a pronounced textual technicality, generates a critical distance that corrodes the aforementioned prejudices and incorporates Latin America into a transnational environment.status: Published onlin