MODERNIDAD Y APOCALIPSIS EN LOS ZORROS DE ARGUEDAS

the present article proposes a reading of el zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo from an apocalyptic perspective. the different textual layers interwoven in the novel -the author’s diaries, the pre-hispanic myths and the narrative plot itself- are articulated in a way that resonates specifically with the apocalypsis in order to represent the social collapse brought on by capitalist modernity in peru during the seventies.