The immaterial heritage of drug trafficking. About Era más grande el muerto of Luis Miguel Rivas

Abstract

This article takes a walk for the marks left by drug trafficking in societies based on analysis and commentary of Era más grande el muerto (2017) of Luis Miguel Rivas. The story has place in Villalinda, a recreation of 80´s and 90´s Medellín from past century. The novel reflects with rawness and humor the ideals, principles and aspirations that marked society in last decades, not only in Antioquia or Colombia but in many Latin-American countries. The border between legal and illegal, right and wrong, it appears commonly diluted, narcos goes from the Interpol lists to Netflix series with hardly any difference in social valuation. This novel takes us to ask ourselves and question the brightness that the television series and transmedia want to endorse on these characters.

Keywords

• latin american literature
• literary analysis
• social problems
• mass culture