History and fiction: El Maranón, a pilgrim text

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 ob...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Salvatierra, María de Fátima
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Perú
Institución:Academia Peruana de la Lengua
Repositorio:Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/136
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/136
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:El Marañón
Diego de Aguilar y de Córdoba
Sixteenth Century
literature
fictionality
siglo XVI
literatura
ficcionalidad
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Sumario: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.