Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. No lo llamemos realismo sucio

Abstract

Analyzing the work of the Cuban author Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, in most publications, it is customary to compare him with a kind of Caribbean Bukowski. As well as his poetics and style, they are stylistically labeled as belonging to the literary current of Dirty Realism. I consider these parallels fallacious, since I consider Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Charles Bukowski as two literary universes that, although they start from the same start-ing points, represent two parallel lines that will never join. Furthermore, analyzing the Verist works that emerged in Sicily at the end of the 19th century, it will be my intention to demonstrate how erroneous and superfluous it can be to adopt the label of Dirty Realism in literary works