JUGOS DAÑADOS DEL SAN PEDRO EN LA VIOLENCIA DEL TIEMPO DE MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ

Abstract

In this novel the presence of the San Pedro cactus shows not only the shaman’s thera-peutic operations but also the way in which the ecstasy produced by its consumption is defined as a chemical and aesthetic procedure, with somatic-political repercussions and experimental aspirations from the point of view of its literary concreteness. In this way, the experimentation of the visions that is reached through the trance state and the ways of narrating history are underlined, thus giving rise to a shamanic theorization of the montage method.