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Luis Veres
Santiago Roncagliolo's novel, Abril rojo, is based on a police plot of a post-modern kind set in the Peruvian Andes, specifically in the area of Ayacucho, during the 1980s, coinciding with the last acts of the terrorist attacks by the Shining Path that ravaged Peru during those years. In the development of the plot, Roncagliolo builds a mystery based on Andean mythology, specifically two myths, the Taki Onkoy and the Inkarrí. This article reflects on the mythology present in the novel, which serves Roncagliolo to portray the Andean world and, in general, Peru, with the most obvious signs of a backward country, a vision that corresponds to the point of view of a writer based in Europe and is proper to a globalized world in which the predominant perspective is the Western view. This portrait serves the novelist Roncagliolo to criticize the trajectory of the terrorism of Shining Path, although it presents the problem of certain generalization regarding the characterization of Peru.
