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Peruvian Traditions Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Ricardo Palma; Christopher Conway (Editor); Helen Lane (Translator)

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Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts. His historical miscellanies, which he called "traditions," are witty anecdotes about conquerors, viceroys, corrupt and lovelorn friars, tragic loves and notorious characters. Humor, irony and word play characterize his collection of over five hundred traditions written between 1872 and 1906, whether describing violent deeds or amorous misadventures. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the second half of the nineteenth century, Palma did not write transparent didactic fictions and defend elite cultural forms. Rather, he reveled in ironic approaches to written sources, political authorities and church institutions as well as popular speech and knowledge. Both fiction and history, Palma's delightful Peruvian Traditions represents a hybrid literary form that constructs historical memory distinct from the dominant literary trends of the time.

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Whither marches the son of the Sun with so great a cortege?

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  • Title Peruvian Traditions
  • Author Ricardo Palma; Christopher Conway (Editor); Helen Lane (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, Etc.
  • Publication date 2004-05-06
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780195159097 / 0195159098
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.56 x 0.74 in (21.44 x 14.12 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Peru - History, Legends - Peru
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003050876
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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Christopher Conway is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Helen Lane, an award-winning translator, has translated the work of Mario Varga Llosa and Octavio Paz. She is the translator of Fray Servando's Memoirs and Marmol's Amalia also for the Library of Latin America series.

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