The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by Jose Maria Arguedas and Maria Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca [...]

This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature and cultural history at university level. It could also be read at upper sixth-form level as the plot is uncomplicated and the emotional atmosphere is immediately graspable. It tells the story of a young man's experience of[...]

Vargas Llosa brings us closer to the life of Peruvian novelist Jose Maria Arguedas, a writer known for his revolutionary commitment and one of the most important figures in the Latin-American Indigenous Movement. A cross between the biographical, historical, and literary critic genres, The Archaic U[...]