La Estela de Caicedo: Miradas Crticas

En el estrecho lapso de los aproximadamente diez aos que transcurren entre su primeras publicaciones y el ao de su suicidio enigmtico (1967-1977), ejecuta Andrs Caicedo en Cali, Colombia, su fascinante y perturbadora aportacin a la literatura, al teatro, a la crtica de cine y al sensorium de su generacin y las que le siguieron. Se puede hablar de un Evento Caicedo, en el sentido astrofsico de la expresin, a juzgar por el evento fugaz pero casi csmico que represent este escritor para muchos jvenes en su poca y que creen experimentar todava otros tantos en nuestros das al entrar en contacto con su obra. Se puede hablar tambin de una estela de Caicedo. De ser un objeto de culto impblico en el margen del margen de Cali, Caicedo pas a configurar un tema que cifra el presente tardomoderno en importantes mbitos colombianos. ~ In the narrow period of approximately ten years that elapses between his first publications and the year of his enigmatic suicide (1967-1977), Andrs Caicedo performs in Cali, Colombia, his fascinating and disturbing contribution to literature, theater, film review and overall perceptions of his generation and those that followed. We can speak of a Caicedo Event, in the astrophysical sense of the expression, judging by the fleeting but almost cosmic influence that this writer represented for many young people in his time and that many others still believe to experience in our days upon coming in contact with his work. We can also speak of the trail of Caicedo. From being an object of infamous worship among the margins of the margins of Cali, Caicedo went on to configure a theme that shapes the late modern present in important Colombian domains.