Description
This book examines the ways in which contemporary novelists from Venezuela and Colombia have treated one of the most prominent nineteenth-century historical figures of South America, Simn Bolvar, the Liberatoralso known as the founding father of their nations. The novels examined at length are Sinfona desde el Nuevo Mundo (1990) by Germn Espinosa, Manuel Piar, caudillo de dos colores (1987) by Francisco Herrera Luque, El general en su laberinto (1989) by Gabriel Garca Mrquez, La ceniza del Libertador (1989) by Fernando Cruz Konfly, and El insondable (1997) by lvaro Pineda Botero. This book focuses primarily on the different kinds of fictional representation of this Latin American icon and the roles these modes of portrayal play in the ideologies at the end of the twentieth century. In Spanish
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