LA NOVELA DEL DESENCANTO COMO CATEGORÍA DE LA NOVELA HISTÓRICA LATINOAMERICANA: EL CASO DE AÑOS DE FUGA DE PLINIO APULEYO MENDOZA

Resumo

The article unravels, in the horizon of the rich production of the Colombian writer
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, the keys to a social and cultural experience that gives content
to what Gabriel García Márquez called “the novel of disenchantment.” Based on the
consequences of pending utopias and unfulfilled social hopes and from a broad knowledge of the processes described, the author’s resources play with historical and fictional
protagonists and situations, as part of a plot in which literature, history and political, to
explain, in a testimonial, critical and highly analytical approach, important events and
political processes in Colombia and Latin America. The analysis concludes by valuing
the key aspects of the novel as a contribution to collective historical memory, within the
framework of the author’s valuable narrative trajectory

Palavras-chave:

Novel of disenchantment; Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza; political history; Colombia; Latin America.