History and fiction: El Maranón, a pilgrim text

Keywords: El Marañón, Diego de Aguilar y de Córdoba, Sixteenth Century, literature, fictionality

Abstract

In this article we try to present some relevant aspects of the fictional nature of El Marañón of Diego de Aguilar y Cordova. To this end, we will make evident the narrator’s discursive strategies, the fictional aspects related to the legends of the New World; and finally, as evidence of Aguilar’s obvious literary work, we want to show the differences regarding to his main reference source. Unlike other contemporary texts that deal with the same adventure of Lope de Aguirre, this work is clearly profiled as an artistic and successfully finished work of the renaissance in Peru.

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Author Biography

María de Fátima Salvatierra, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Licenciada en Literatura por la UNMSM. Magíster en Literatura Peruana y Latinoamericana por la Universidad de San Marcos. Pertenece a la Sección Doctoral de la Facultad de Letras de San Marcos, y al Programa de Complementación Pedagógica de la Facultad de Educación de la UNMSM. Ha colaborado en revistas como Escritura & Pensamiento, Tesis y el Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua.

Published
2014-12-31
How to Cite
Salvatierra, M. de F. (2014). History and fiction: El Maranón, a pilgrim text. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 58(58), 41-60. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201402.002
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Articles