Abstract

VIVAS LACOUR, Carmen Victoria. Narrating from the Unrest in Venezuela's History: Federico Vegas's Falke. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.4, pp.86-96. ISSN 2145-8987.

This paper revisits Federico Vegas's novel Falke based on a historical event about a group of Venezuelans, exiled in Paris who tried a fruitless invasion during Juan Vicente Gómez's tyrannical regime in 1929. In this respect I am interested in analyzing how to address a discomfort from the past, from the literature point of view, allowing the discussion of the explanations that have been created around this historical event and how fiction develops parallel in relation to the current political situation in Venezuela. In this project I will study how the past is replaced by the literary record and what results by shifting the limits that define the historic knowledge from the literary invention.

Keywords : Federico Vegas; Falke; historical novel; memory; venezuelan literature.

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