Reescribir la infancia. Sobre Los días azules y ¡Llegaron! de Fernando Vallejo

This article examines the rewriting of childhood in Fernando Vallejo’s work through a comparison between Los días azules (1985) and ¡Llegaron! (2015). Against critical claims that accuse the author of self-repetition, it argues that the later novel does not replicate the former but rewrites it from the perspective of old age, reversing its formative impulse. The idyllic childhood of Los días azules becomes, in ¡Llegaron!, a corrosive experience shaped by death, and destruction. Drawing on Deleuze’s concept of repetition as the production of difference rather than redundancy, the article shows how Vallejo transforms memory into a device for self-revision. Rewriting functions both as an ethical and aesthetic gesture: to remember is to rewrite, and to rewrite is to dismantle. In this sense, ¡Llegaron! emerges as a lucid act of negation, turning its return to childhood into the undoing of its own narrative origin.