A nationalist traveler through the Andes: Commentary on a new edition of ‘Paisajes peruanos’, by José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma

Paisajes peruanos (‘Peruvian landscapes’) is one of the best historical-literary works created by the historian José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma. It has always been called a travel memoir, which of course was quite unique. A Limenian young man, with a doctorate in Letters from the University of San Mar...

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Autor: Gómez Acuña, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28113
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/28113
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma
Travel memoirs
Andes
Peruvian nation
Historiography
20th century
Relatos de viajes
Nación peruana
Historiografía
Siglo XX
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Sumario:Paisajes peruanos (‘Peruvian landscapes’) is one of the best historical-literary works created by the historian José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma. It has always been called a travel memoir, which of course was quite unique. A Limenian young man, with a doctorate in Letters from the University of San Marcos, descendant of the ancient Peruvian colonial nobility, undertook a journey through the Andes in 1912, roughly following the colonial path between Cusco and Huancayo. His travel notes became later an erudite polyphonic travel story, with clear modernist prose. Moreover, Paisajes peruanos is also a clear vision of what the young liberal Riva-Agüero thought the Peruvian nation was and should be.