Risks and manipulations in the recovery of Andrés Carranque de Ríos’ literary works

Abstract

Since the edition of Andrés Carranque de Ríos’ last novel in 1936, his works have enjoyed a slow and increasing recovery. His name, hardly included in manuals of Literature in 50’, 60’ years of last century, now is habitual in this kind of books, and all his novels, poems, and tales have been published again. Approaching to the literary criticism about the author, this work shows and confirm that, while specialized works insert Carranque de Ríos in the historical context he lived and wrote, the new editions of his texts impose a point of view in what predominate the lack of any ideology in his literature. Our proposition is insert Carranque de Ríos’ works in the tradition of the working class culture, written from the edge and against the bourgeois culture of capitalist society. Only in this way can be comprehended the perspective of his texts and their radical new aesthetic.