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No One Sets the World on Fire Anymore
According to literary critic Ricardo González Vigil, the poems of Victoria Guerrero — a doctor of literature as well as professor and researcher at the PUCP — are like a "thanatic vomit that intertwines the sufferings of her mother and her own, fearing nihilistically that reality can no longer be set ablaze." This "toxic reality" makes direct reference to recent national history related to the military government of the 1970s, which, as glimpsed in the poems, was the starting point for the social mobilization that empowered a historically marginalized population, only for those same people to later become victims of terrorism and state violence.