The Miraculous Lie - Lope De Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin American Historical Novel

A fascinating study of five twentieth-century Latin American novels that focus on one particular search for El Dorado: the infamous 1559 expedition, headed by Pedro Ursua and the first legendary colonial rebel against the crown, Lope de Aguirre. Author Bart Lewis approaches these five works as both representations of Latin American literature during the mid to late twentieth-century and as re-examinations of the notorious figure of Lope de Aguirre.

List of contents

Chapter 1 A Personal Introduction Chapter 2 Lope de Aguirre in Latin American Culture: Historical Figure and Literary Character Chapter 3 Why Spaniards Dreamed: The Golden Legend and Colonial Searches for El Dorado Chapter 4 The Ursúa/Aguirre Expedition as Written Historical Record: Fact that Will Become Fiction Chapter 5 Birth of a Caudillo: Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado Chapter 6 Limited Immortality: Aguirre Stalks History in Posse's Daimón Chapter 7 Characterization as Historical Progression in Otero Silva's Lope de Aguirre, Príncipe de la Libertad Chapter 8 Aguirre's Dialogue with History in Jorge Ernesto Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre Chapter 9 A (His)Story that Will Live Forever: The Supremacy of Fiction in Álvarez Sáenz' Crónica de Blasfemos Chapter 10 The Eternal Pilgrim: Lope de Aguirre in the Latin American Novel and Beyond

About the author

By Bart L. Lewis

Product details

• Authors: Bart L. Lewis, Lewis Bart L.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2003
• EAN: 9780739104651
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0465-1
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin-American Spanish, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form