La poética de "Noticias del Imperio" de Fernando del Paso: la historia en la historia

Abstract

This paper discusses the fictionalization of historical discourse and the historicalization of literary discourse based on two theoretical perspectives. First; the Bakhtinian concepts of ‘polyphony ’ and ‘etheroglossia '; and second; the concept of ‘metahistory '; a term coined by Hayden White. Fernando del Paso's decision to interweave literary and historical discourse places the problem squarely within the scope of Hayden White's theory of tropes and the explicit and implicit stance of Jorge Luis Borges on the cyclical nature of History.