Fiction and History in the rubber representation of La vorágine y Las tres mitades del Ino Moxo.

Abstract

La vorágine (1924) and Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo (1981) are texts that dissolve the notion of “literary work” in favor of a “historical record”. Arturo Cova and Ino Moxo are factual characters, whose manuscript or oral discourse, respectively, is ordered and transmitted by external agents: editors as José Rivera Eustasio or transcribers as Cesar Calvo. Also, in order to accentuate this likelihood both novels include explanatory paratexts (prologues), glossaries of words, but above a photographic record, all of which gives them a status of anthropological document. Among other formal factors, this paper seeks to demonstrate that this interest is due to the credibility attempt to communicate the historical tragedy that pierced the Colombian and Peruvian jungle between 1872 and 1912: the exploitation of rubber. For us, the fictional deterritorialization is a resource that aims intensely affect the rubber readers about violence, presenting these books as memories of an era, and thus related , for example, textual codes Blue Book Roger Casement ( 1912). Thus the documentary Rivera and Calvo strategy would be based on an ideological position in a social critique that denounced the atrocities committed by the entrepreneurs of rubber plantations, Arana and Fitzcarrald.