Literature and Society in Colombia Aitana (2007), by Germán Espinosa

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Sebastián Pineda Buitrago

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A few months before his death, the Colombian writer Germán Espinosa (1938-2007) published his last and most autobiographical of his novels, Aitana (2007), in which he merged his literary work and daily life in Bogotá from the first decade of the 21st century. Both the crescendo of horror and suspense and the esoteric invention of a sorcerer do not detract realism from Aitana, but rather intensify Espinosa's pessimism against Colombian society, whose intellectuality, according to him, sympathize in large part with violence by virtue of a grossly materialistic attitude. Aitana is the literary testament of a prolific novelist who felt himself “misunderstood”, partly because of his verbal and scholarly excess, and partly because of the precarious cultural institutions of his country.

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Pineda Buitrago, S. “Literature and Society in Colombia Aitana (2007), by Germán Espinosa”. Creneida. Journal of Hispanic Literatures, no. 7, Dec. 2019, pp. 84-99, doi:10.21071/calh.v7i.12484.
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