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This article examines the general characteristics of El cóndor pasa... (The Condor Passes By...) in relation to its cultural context in Peru's 1910s and the global musical context in which both the famous melody named “El condor pasa" and the musical drama itself are inserted. The article refutes some of the most frequent commonplaces about the work by Julio Baudouin and Daniel Alomía Robles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author asserts that a well-defined and independent canon of literature has not emerged in Peru. She questions the idea that a Peruvian literary canon was consolidated around 1905 and points out social and political conditions, including those related to Peru's defeat in the Pacific War, that she maintains made it impossible to continue the 19th century hegemonic republican model in which literature constituted one of the ideological elements driving the development of Peru after its independence from Spain. The article examines the influence of key Peruvian authors and critics, including José de la Riva Agüero, Manuel González Prada, and Adolfo Vienrich, on the social and political development of Peru.