Amor, odio y marginalidad en “Warma kuyay”, de José María Arguedas

Abstract

The short story “Warma kuyay” (“A child’s love”) was published in “Agua”, in 1935. Seventy years have passed since then. This brief narrative piece by José María Arguedas was known in Chile through Ricardo Latcham’s Anthology of 1962, “Antología del cuento hispanoamericano”, and it also appears in the compilation of all of Arguedas’s short fiction in “Amormundo”.
Our research will first use the textual analysis technique, centered on the analysis of motivation, understood as a basic situation in human life. The love triangle and the rupture provided by the fourth element are carefullly studied, in the perspective of a definition of the story as a single episode narrative or as a single motivation narrative.
This organic definition is essential to the narrative discourse under analysis, in which are perceived structural oppositions between light and dark, harmony and disharmony, nature and marginality, interior and exterior. Finally, a classification is essayed from the viewpoint of an internal organization through a typology, all of which carries the exegesis to a diachronic and historical proposal, in this way bringing into study the notions of exegesis, promotion, tendency and trend, characteristics of the construction of the literary history in the superrealist period.