Peru

In Peru, fantastic literature and science fiction have a long tradition that is still undergoing exhumation and rescue. The purpose here is to establish a first cartographic guide to sf in Peru, which from the outset is inevitably incomplete, given that new authors continue to be discovered and that, over the last few decades, sf production has been on the rise.
The first novel ever written in Peru was published in serial format in the newspaper, El Comercio. It was written by Julián M del Portillo (1818-1862), with the title Lima de aquí a cien años ["Lima One Hundred Years from Now"] (1843). The novel fits within the parameters of sf, as it posits a voyage to the future based on the device of the dream (an element used during the Romantic period, when the novel was written). The novel's importance lies not just with its age (it is one of the oldest in the Americas and predates the works of Jules Verne and H G Wells), but in the fact that in Peru, the novel was launched on the basis of fantastical and futuristic elements. The novel projects the educated elite's view of what the young nation of Peru should become, economically and politically; as was the case with many countries in post-independence Latin America, freedom from Spanish rule in 1821 was a recent event that generated instability around the question of political power.
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* http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/peru
Category:Science Fiction