Jorge Pimentel, Hora Zero y la renovacion de la poesia peruana

In 1970, Jorge Pimentel (1944, Lima) founded Hora Zero, an avant-garde movement whose goal was to transform poetry in Pert. According to Pimentel, no poetry that captured Peruvian reality and language had been produced since the endeavors of Cesar Vallejo. This study examines the published works by Pimentel in three interrelated aspects: Hora Zero as an expression of generational revolt in the 1970s; the validity of Pimentel's propositions to transform Peruvian poetry; and the evolution of his writings as viewed from the perspective of textuality, metatextuality and existence.;The methodology adopted for this task combines a number of hypotheses: Ortega y Gasset's ideas about decisive generations and eponyms in history; Freud's interpretation of parricide; Jakobson's observations on parallelismus membrorum; Cohen's definition of poetry as stylistic paroxysm; and Foucault's conception of madness.;The analysis consists of four intertwined instances: first, the reconstruction of the historical panorama that caused both the emergence of Hora Zero and the abstract interpretation Pimentel superimposed on reality; second, an explanation of the relationship between Pimentel's assumptions and the historical events that confirmed or negated them, as well as how such events led him to an abyss of dissolution; third, a novel interpretation of all the books published by Pimentel; and finally, a comparison of representative samples of Peruvian poetry published prior to Pimentel's first book together with samples of subsequent Peruvian works that document the impact of this particular poetic moment.;By way of conclusion, I propose that Pimentel is the eponym of a defining generation that includes and transcends Hora Zero. I also suggest that Pimentel's poetry is the first Peruvian literary testimony of a dystopian world order composed of illegitimate governments, vicious violence, restrictions of civil liberties, poverty and famine. Pimentel's works reveal an underlying chaos in which the signifiers and the meanings of uncertainty, disillusionment, distrustfulness, cynicism, depravity and malevolence have negated the Hegelian "Spirit".;KEYWORDS: Poesia peruana, Flora Zero, Jorge Pimentel Vasquez, literatura peruana y distopia, literatura peruana y vanguardia.