Approach to the topic of drug trafficking in the contemporary Colombian prose

The present work elaborates on the approach of several contemporary Colombian authors towards the matter of the drug trafficking and activities of Colombian drug cartels between the 1970's and 1990's. The main goal is to summarize the principal affairs of the period and their representation in the current Colombian prose and, primarily, point out the different attitudes towards the adaptation of the topic between individual authors. The drug trafficking problem nowadays appears as a potent literary theme throughout many Latin American countries, especially in Colombia, and an inexhaustible quantity of works dealing with the topic arise continuously. Therefore, it seams impossible to cover all authors involved. On that account, I have decided to work with the limited corpus comprised of three representative novels: Amando a Pablo, Odiando a Escobar (Virginia Vallego), Rosario Tijeras (Jorge Franco) and La Virgen de los sicarios (Fernando Vallejo). The mentioned novels are linked by the same main theme - the drug problem and related violence - however, their literary style and author's prism differ. Based on this corpus, I will attempt to ilustrate the disunited viewing of the problem which continues to form a topical and controversial subject of discussion in the context of the Colombian society...