JULIO RAMÓN RIBEYRO'S LITERARY POSTURES DURING THE LATIN AMERICAN BOOM

Abstract

This article seeks to elaborate a new interpretation of the position of the peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro in the literary field of the Latin American boom. Based on a reading of his diary La tentación del fracaso from the concept of 'literary posture' developed, among others, by Jêrome Meizoz, Ribeyro will be considered as an author who remained on the margins of the narrative boom of the years sixty and seventy self-consciously and deliberately. For both aesthetic -the cultivation of the short narrative and 'minor genres'- and political reasons -skepticism and distance from the Cuban revolution- Ribeyro was not part of the Latin American boom, although he did share some important elements with the literary elites of his time.