The miraculous lie
The miraculous lie: Lope de Aguirre and the search for El Dorado in the Latin American historical novel Bart L. Lewis
Publisher: Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2003.
ISBN: 0739104659
DDC: 863.08109351
LCC: PQ7082
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
Lope de Aguirre in Latin American culture: historical figure and
literary character -- Why Spaniards dreamed: the golden legend and
colonial searches for El Dorado -- The Ursúa/Aguirre expedition as
written historical record: fact that will become fiction -- Birth of
a caudillo: Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado --
Limited immortality: Aguirre stalks history in Posse's Daimón --
Characterization as historical progression in Otero Silva's Lope de
Aguirre, Príncipe de la libertad -- Aguirre's dialogue with history
in Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre -- A (his)story that will
live forever: the supremacy of fiction in Alvarez Sáenz' Crónica de
blasfemos -- The eternal pilgrim: Lope de Aguirre in the Latin
American novel and beyond.
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