Cartas pehuenches by Juan Egaña: between fiction and non-fiction

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  • Enid Valle Kalamazoo College (Estados Unidos)

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https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.01.02

Abstract

Cartas pehuenches, written by Chilean Juan Egaña (1768-1836), was published as a newspaper in 1819. Critics have defined the work either as a piece directed toward political and social reform, or as a travel narrative, and, most recently, as the work which best represents the beginnings of modern Chilean narrative. This essay analizes the strategies employed by the author to develop a fictional universe, within the fictional letters themselves, a universe which gradually takes over the letters that contain it. A detailed examination of the framed narratives, the editor's notes, and the epigraphs allows for a reading of Cartas pehuenches as a work in which fiction and non-fiction are intertwined for the purpose of legitimizing a discursive space.

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Published

2022-12-22

How to Cite

Valle, E. (2022). Cartas pehuenches by Juan Egaña: between fiction and non-fiction. Anales De Literatura Chilena, (1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.01.02

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