El viaje de Javier Heraud

Ariarca, a young woman of twenty years has always lived with the presence of her great uncle. He never met him, but he was always at family reunions, at Christmas, on trips she used to make with his grandparents. One day Ariarca decides to open the trunk of memories and reconstruct the story of his physically absent, great uncle. That trunk keeps a story that she knows little about. Ariarca tries to discover, with letters and poems, the journey through the life of Javier Heraud, one of the most important poets of Peru. Javier Heraud wrote his poetic work from 18 to 21 years old. Through his poetry and the letters he left to his family and friends, the poet tells the story that relatives keep in pain and in memory. Ariarca discovers Javier’s trips to Paris, Moscow, Madrid and Havana, where he also discovers how Javier entered the military in a guerrilla group in the 60s that managed to enter Peru through Bolivia through the jungle and was shot in Puerto Maldonado after surrendering, the young woman will meet some witnesses of the events. Thus disappeared one of the most valuable voices of the poetry of Peru and happened to be the eternal young poet, the so-called Rimbaud of Peruvian poetry. Although for her she will always be the absent uncle, who never knew and today wants to know who he is. Ariarca has the age at which Javier died and knows that she has a story to discover and tell.