The Narrator-Poet and the Narrator-Ethnologist of the Deep Rivers

Abstract

The article focuses on the analysis and the function of the narrators in José María Arguedas's Deep Rivers. Ángel Rama introduces the Secondary Narrator-Ethnologist. I propose to also discern in the text another voice of a slightly different nature-that one of the Secondary Narrtor-Poet.

I aim to contribute to the debate about the lyrical element in Arguedas's narrative texts, as the Secondary Narrtor-Poet is one of many implicit means that the author uses to gain favour from the reader.

Keywords

• José María Arguedas
• Deep Rivers
• poetic prose
• lyricized prose
• lyricization
• narrator
• Emil Staiger
• Octavio Paz
• Ángel Rama
• Antonio Cornejo Polar
• Américo Ferrari.