The Task of the Historian in El general en su laberinto

The Task of the Historian in El general en su laberinto

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The Task of the Historian in El general en su
laberinto
Isabel Alvarez-Borland
College of the Holy Cross, [email protected]
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Alvarez-Borland, Isabel. "The Task of the Historian in El general en su laberinto." Hispania 76.3 (1993) : 439-445.
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to question its exclusive claim to tmth. only be left in ambiguity, what is of interest
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rate interpretation of its mes age. The irony is the il usion of capturing facts with words.
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ing his own death, Bolivar gives orders to de- Habl6. soltando sentencias prof6ticas.
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stroy all of the letters he had written, "pan que muchas de las cuales estarian en una proclama
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(228). In the same vein, he asks Santander to Kingston, y que la historia habria de consagrar
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