Martín Adán: de la urbe moderna a la ciudad ancestral

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection about the social transformation of Lima in the 20s and 30s, described by Martín Adán in La casa de cartón (1928) through surrealists and modernist images, opposed to the "city of stone", Machu Pichu, that the poet describes in La mano desasida (1961-1964). A duality that, through these two main works of the author's prose and poetry, permits to research in the literary evolution of one of the main figures of the 20th century Peruvian literature.