José María Arguedas como representante de la cultura quechua - análisis de la novela «El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo»

José María Arguedas was an important Peruvian writer. His last novel "El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo" The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below) relates the stories of the lives of the people called Chimbote. The main focus is on the changes of the traditional lifestyle that accompanied the development of this Peruvian town: thanks to the fishing boom large numbers of migrants, of different social and ethnic backgrounds relocated here. Mróz analyses the themes influenced by the indigenous Quechua culture in the novel. According to Mróz the Quechua culture is centrally and deeply present in the novel in three different aspects: linguistics, the way the world is portrayed, and the image and future of the society.