La Novela del desencanto como categoría de la novela histórica latinoamericana: el caso de Años de fuga de Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

Abstract

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.