The new latin american historical novel: the deconstruction of a demonized profile built bythe chronicles between the years of 1559 and 1561.

Abstract

By analyzing the literary piece Lope de Aguirre: Crónicas (1559-1561), by Mampel González and Escadell Tur (1981) we aim to verify this European conqueror profile that names the book. With the main focus on Aguirre, the six chronicles related in the book present the trajectory and the happenings in Pedro de Ursúa’s expedition, in 1560, in which he had the mission of finding the treasures of El Dorado. When he established a vital link with Peru region, Aguirre, in a letter do the Spanish Crown, denaturalizes himself from his domains, a fact that coincides with a pre-declaration of Independence of the American territory. Due to the course the expedition has taken, Aguirre is betrayed by his fellows, the ones who wrote texts full of convictions against the fragmented character. Based on that, this bibliographical investigation tries to recover Aguirre’s discursive image in the chronicles mentioned in order to, comparatively with the data from these chronicles, make reference to the historical novels like Daimón, by Abel Posse (1978) and Lope de Aguirre: Príncipe de la Libertad, by Miguel Otero Silva (1979).