El hablador, de Mario Vargas Llosa, o la búsqueda infructuosa del Otro

• Autor: Susti Gonzales, Alejandro Enrico
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: ULIMA-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/5777
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/5777; https://doi.org/10.26439/en.lineas.generales2018.n001.1839
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Vargas Llosa, Mario-Crítica e interpretación; Narrativa peruana; Oralidad-Aspectos culturales; Poblaciones indígenas; Vargas Llosa, Mario-Criticism and interpretation; Peruvian narrative; Orality-Cultural aspects; Indigenous people

The Storyteller, by Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1987, suggests throughout its pages a project of ethnographic fictionalization consisting on “making talk” a character of the Machiguenga culture —"the storyteller"—, by staging certain mechanisms of orality raised by Walter Ong for the so-called primary oral cultures. This paper examines these mechanisms as well as the displacement made by the author in order to have a more authentic fictionalization of the protagonist: Raúl Zuratas. This displacement and attempt of acculturation, however, is signaled by the marks of a speech strongly rooted in the Western tradition —making reference to art, literature or to the Christian literary tradition—, which invalidates the original purpose of ethnographic fiction as a product of the cultural distance established between writing and orality, and the impossibility of situating the character beyond History.