In Praise of the Unusual Brevity.

The Fantastic Micro-story in Peru of the last twenty-five years

Authors

  • Richard Leonardo-Loayza Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)

Keywords:

Peruvian Literature, Peruvian narrative, Microficción, Short-short story, Fantastic short-short-story

Abstract

Microfiction has been experiencing a growing boom for at least three decades in Latin America. Peruvian literature is not an exception to such a phenomenon. One of the aspects of this genre in that country is the short story that deals with the subject of the fantastic, which has not yet been fully studied. The following article analyzes the short stories of six of the most representative authors of this period: Carlos Herrera, Daniel Salvo, Ricardo Sumalavia, Julia Sovero Lazo, Amalia Álvarez Camere and Violeta Jurado Serpa.

Published

15/09/2022

Issue

Section

Varia