The challeonic posture of violence: the Poet of The Time of the Hero (1963) of Mario Vargas Llosa

Abstract

The configuration of the character Alberto Fernandez (the Poet) of The Time of the Hero (1963) is chameleonic in terms of violence, due to the fact that he assumed that his behavior was sometimes aggressive in order to acquire a certain respect; on the contrary, it will not be a diachronic attitude, the character will tend to want to experience a little more aggressiveness in trying to defeat the Jaguar and to seek revenge for the death of his companion Ricardo Arana (what happens there what Landowski called the risk of failure of the programming or the bad adjustment, made from its interaction as a chameleon). Also, he is conceived of his human side (it is with this attitude that would counteract that violence, which seems to control in its majority): it is something peaceful, knows how to live in that violent space, does not seek mostly lawsuits and even reaches the extreme to be a coward and informer (at the moment he is blackmailed by the authorities of Leoncio Prado not to mention anything about the death of the Slave, since to do so he will be expelled for being the author of pornographic novels that he has spread throughout his section).

Keywords

• adaptación social, violencia, personaje, protagonista, análisis literario