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developed from the discourse of the law in the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth century, while many of the early historical documents concerning the New World assumed the same forms, furnished by the notarial arts.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 ...
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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developed from the discourse of the law in the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth century, while many of the early historical documents concerning the New World assumed the same forms, furnished by the notarial arts.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 Gonz???lez Echevarr???a'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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Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 245pp. Black papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Bibliography & index. Cambridge Studies in Latin Ameican and Iberian Literature 3. A tight, clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped particulars to spine. Small markings in black pen to margins scattered throughout; otherwise, text is clean and unmarked. Text block has light tanning to top edge, but is otherwise unmarked. Front board has faint spot of soiling to lower edge, but boards are otherwise clean and bright with bumping to lower edge, corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is clean and bright with light shelf wear to covers, previous barcode sticker to lower edge of rear cover, and creasing and rubbing to extremities.
