Carnaval y Sociedad Anómica Colombiana en la Carroza de Bolívar de Evelio Rosero Diago

Abstract

 Within the list of new colombian historical novels, the novel Bolivar’s carriage by Evelio Rosero Diago, writer of Nariño ancestry, is published at the beginning of the year, a work that reveals in the south the complex reality of Colombian society in permanent crisis due to Its founding at once, built on an enormous lie, that of the great military Bolivar concerned with public morality, and whose nefarious example given by the “so-called Liberator” founded what would eventually be the Colombian political culture, according to the statement that Dr. Justo Pastor Proceso López, famous gynecologist of the city of Pasto, where the events take place in the middle of the carnival party of Whites and Blacks between December 28, 1966 and until January 6, 67, a character that Seeks to develop in his life, on the one hand, a political project denouncing, in the manner of Sañudo with his Studies on the life of Bolivar, the lies said about Bolivar, and for which he will sponsor a chariot with his figure to remind people Of the south its past history, in addition to his other project to obtain the love of his wife and the affection of his daughters, projects that will develop parallel in the history of the novel, and that will end with the murder of the doctor on the part of a A cell of the national liberation army that, through its contradictory actions, seeks to clean Bolivar’s honor, allegedly defamed by the protagonist.

The carnivalized vision of the world offered by the text and thanks to which certain freedoms are allowed, which will enable the development of the doctor’s life projects, will reveal the condition of a generalized anomic society, that is the existence of an anomic State as it is The Colombian and, of course, the society of the south of the country, governed by a discredited normative that contributes to its deinstitutionalization, and whose causes go back to the very origins of foundation of the homeland and before which, remembering the past of the region And the idyllic chronotope in which its inhabitants lived, seeks to recover the lost, that is, a harmonious and just way of life free from vexations and lies. Rosero adopts a supra-party ideological position in his evaluation of the Colombian reality which allows him to carry out his proposal through the truth of revelation proper to the aesthetic work.