The miraculous lie
Subtitle: Lope de Aguirre and the search for El Dorado in the Latin American historical novel
By: Bart L. Lewis.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: 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 -- 16th century -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175)  and index.
Table of contents: title: Lope de Aguirre in Latin American culture : historical figure and literary character; title: Why Spaniards dreamed : the golden legend and colonial searches for El Dorado; title: The Ursúa/Aguirre expedition as written historical record : fact that will become fiction; title: Birth of a caudillo : Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado; title: Limited immortality : Aguirre stalks history in Posse's Daimón; title: Characterization as historical progression in Otero Silva's Lope de Aguirre, príncipe de la libertad; title: Aguirre's dialogue with history in Jorge Ernesto Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre; title: A (his)story that will live forever : the supremacy of fiction in Alvarez Sáenz' Crónica de  blasfemos; title: The eternal pilgrim : Lope de Aguirre in the Latin American novel and beyond.