Considerations around the narrative of Edgardo Rivera Martinez

Abstract

This article examines the fiction of Edgardo Rivera Martínez. In contemporary Peruvian literature, Rivera Martínez has created a fictional universe in which the central focus calls for the need for dialogue promoting the creation of a new mestizaje in modern Peruvian society. The need for such a focus is born through the creation of characters who permanently question their identities and sense of belonging in the world, making evident the urgency of a new multicultural society in which the Andean and the Western worlds can coexist in harmony.