The miraculous lie : Lope de Aguirre and the search for El Dorado in the Latin American historical novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lewis, Bart L., 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]
Subjects:	Historical fiction, Spanish American > History and criticism. Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Aguirre, Lope de, > -1561 > In literature. El Dorado > In literature. South America > History > 16th century > Historiography.

Table of Contents:

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 Jorge Enesto 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.