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Author:

Lewis, Bart L., 1946-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

ix, 184 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Aguirre, Lope de,--d. 1561--In literature.
Historical fiction, Spanish American--History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
El Dorado--In literature.
South America--History--Historiography.--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.

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 Ernesto 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.

ISBN:

9780739104651 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739104659 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51203991

LCCN:

2002154003

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)