This article analyzes the human condition and the proposal of a utopian future in César Vallejo's Trilce (1922). To do so, firstly, the logic that prevails within the prison world will be exposed: tedium, violence and impossibility of establishing affective bonds with each other. Secondly, in conjunction with the above, starting from the figure of the mother and 16 Grober Omar Quichua Ayvar (2020). "It inspires me with rage and it whips me / and there is no way out of it" the dispossessed, Vallejo's political commitment to materialize a fairer way of living together in a society where the capacity to love and the right to dissidence is rescued will be addressed.

This article analyzes the representation of the national flag in two specific episodes of the Peruvian narrative in order to expose how it can be used as a means that, on the one hand, enervates national sentiment and, on the other, denounces the injustices against the Ande communities. In the first place, in the story “El hombre de la bandera”, by the writer Enrique López Albújar, the flag is manifested as the symbol that breeds a foundational nationalist discourse. It inspires in the inhabitants of the Andes an intimate identification with Peru and defense of the territory with their own lives, despite the unquestionable injustices they have suffered historically. Second, in the novel Redoble por Rancas, by Manuel Scorza, the flag highlights the contradictions and fissures in the ideological base that sustains the nation project. The national banner fosters solidarity between the...