SOURCE: Castro-Klarén, Sara. ‘“Like a Pig, When He's Thinkin’: Arguedas on Affect and on Becoming an Animal.” In The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below, edited by Julio Ortega and Christian Fernandez, pp. 307-323. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

In the following essay, Castro-Klarén argues that Arguedas's engagement with Quechua myths and his conclusion that there cannot be harmony between the consciousness of the Indian myths and the consciousness of the modern world.

With the air he fights, Brother, with the darkness he boxes; he don't light the lamp. … Then in a little while he squeezes me like snake or punches me, givin' me bloody nose. … He looks at my blood from over there, from the wall, like a pig, when he's thinkin(1) 

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