This book offers a theory about the origin and evolution of the
Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern
novel. It argues that the novel developed from the discourse of the
law in the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth century, while many
of the early historical documents concerning the New World assumed
the same forms, furnished by the notarial arts. Thus, both the
novel and these first Latin American narratives imitated the
language of authority. The book explores how the same process is
repeated in two key moments in the history of the Latin American
narrative. In the nineteenth century, the model was the discourse
of scientific travellers such as von Humboldt and Darwin, while in
the twentieth century, the discourse of anthropology - the study of
language and myth - has come to shape the narrative. Professor
Gonzalez Echevarria's theoretical approach is drawn from a reading
of Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos, and the book centres on major
figures in the tradition such as Columbus, Garcilaso el Inca,
Sarmiento, Gallegos, Borges and Garcia Marquez.
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