Scorza, Manuel

Scorza, Manuel

▪ Peruvian author
born 1928, Lima, Peru
died Nov. 27, 1983, Madrid, Spain

      Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist who interwove mythic and fantastic elements with social realism in his depictions of the Indians' struggles against oppression and exploitation.

      In 1949 Scorza joined a group that resisted the dictatorship of General Manuel Odría. That same year, his first book of poems, Actas de la remota lejanía (“Proceedings of a Remote Distance”), was published and was confiscated by the local police. He was forced into exile and lived in many countries, barely managing to survive. Las imprecaciones (1955; “Imprecations”), a collection of poems, won him literary honours in Peru in 1956. That year he also joined the Movimiento Comunal and supported a peasant revolt that was raging in the Cerro de Pasco. He became secretary of the movement and wrote its political manifestos.

      Scorza achieved fame with novels chronicling the Indians' revolt. Redoble por Rancas (1970; Drums for Rancas) was the first of five volumes dealing with events in Peru (1955–62) and with the plight of the Indians. A basic theme in this and the other four novels of the series, Historia de Garabombo, el invisible (1972; “Story of Garabombo the Invisible”), El jinete insomne (1978; “The Insomniac Horseman”), Cantar de Agapito Robles (1978; “To Sing of Agapito Robles”), and La tumba del relámpago (1979; “The Tomb of the Lightning”) is the animistic vision of life shared by the Indians as they struggle (mostly unsuccessfully) against powerful feudal landowners and the forces of modern capitalism.

      Scorza finally settled in Paris and taught for a time at the École Normale Supérieure. He died in a plane crash.

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