The objective of this article is to comparatively analyze two texts from the Peruvian magazine Colónida (1916): “Los tóxicos en la literatura y en la vida”, by Roberto Badhan, and “Falsa carátula”, by Federico More. The method consists of a discourse analysis focused on the roles of the enunciator, the sources, and the rhetoric on entheogens. The results show that both texts represent opposing...
In this novel the presence of the San Pedro cactus shows not only the shaman’s therapeutic operations but also the way in which the ecstasy produced by its consumption is defined as a chemical and aesthetic procedure, with somatic-political repercussions and experimental aspirations from the point of view of its literary concreteness. In this way, the experimentation of the visions that is...