El escritor y la rebelión. Una travesía literaria hacia el delito

Abstract

The novels of Juan Carlos Martelli Gente del Sur (1975) and Getsemaní(1969) make up the trilogy that cul-minated with Los tigres de la memoria(1997), winning the International Prize Novel “Latin America” in 1973, and recognized as one of the funda-mental texts in the hard boiled period of the Argentine police novels. Still, the nullity of the criticism of these texts shows its movement towards the margin of Argentinean literature. Then we are interested in showing up the configuration process of revolutionary hero / criminal in the troubled social conditions of Latin America in the years of Peronism. The first novel tells the participation of an Argentinean communist writer in a revolutionary process in Peru, and the second, its role in the struggles for power economic pirates regions in Cartagena de Indias. In this passage from rebellion to crime there is a construction of problematic and complex power nodes, around of a series of contradictions confronting different modes of social production organization. So, we interrogate how the productive crime and transgression / subversion contribute to the develop-ment of the contradictions emerging in different modes of production.