Dos ficciones de Julio Ortega en el panorama literario de las violencias políticas peruanas de 1960 y 1980

Abstract

This article analyzes two works by Julio Ortega (Mesa Pelada and Adiós Ayacucho), situating them within the contexts of Peru’s political violence during the 1960s and 1980s. It examines how these texts approach the representation of conflict through ethical and subaltern perspectives, emphasizing the crisis of language and memory in violent settings. Mesa Pelada reconstructs the guerrilla experience of the 1960s, while Adiós Ayacucho critiques the internal violence of the 1980s from the victims’ viewpoint. Ortega emerges as a literary chronicler who bridges these historical moments, offering a prophetic and critical reflection on war and its societal impact in Peru.