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Los Perros Del Paraíso De Abel Posse: Mito, Rebelión Y El Eterno Presente De La Historia Latinoamericana, Fernando Alfredo Aguirre Perez

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Humorous and sarcastic on every page, the historical novel Los perros del paraíso (1983) by Abel Posse, presents itself as an iconoclast and subversive response to the historical account of the so-called discovery of the New World and the role played in it by Christopher Columbus. In this post-Boom narrative, linear time collapses and events conflate to depict a fantastic world where anachronism makes almost anything possible. Comic and grotesque in their attributes, characters appear performing a colonial play in which the absurd is apparently the sole stable rule. However, underneath this joyful surface, a colonial reason flows to confirm …