Germán Labrador Mendez

The subterranean baroque of Roger Santiváñez

Judah Rubin
Photo of Roger Santiváñez by Mito Tumi, via Wikimedia Commons.

This portfolio brings together writing by Peruvian poet Roger Santiváñez’s beginning in the mid-1980s and into the early 1990s, or from his book Homenaje para iniciados to his 1991 book Symbol.

April 7, 2022

The language of the Kloaka

Language, civil war, memory, and drugs in Roger Santiváñez's 'Symbol,' translated by Judah Rubin

Germán Labrador Méndez
Judah Rubin
Image of a pier in the Miraflores district of Lima by Paulo Guereta, via Wikimedia Commons.

Translator’s note: Germán Labrador Méndez’s essay was originally published as “La Lengua de la Kloaka: lenguaje, guerra civil, memoria y fármacos en Symbol (1991) de Roger Santiváñez.” Versions were published in Góngora & Argot: Ensayos sobre la poesía de Roger Santiváñez, an anthology edited by Paul Guillén and published in July 2015 by Collages de aleWendorff and in <

April 7, 2022
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