Historia y ficción, un matrimonio incestuoso: Venezuela en tiempos violentos, siglos XIX y XX

Abstract

This research line is developed from the seminars conducted at the Universidad de Los Andes, secondary seat of Tachira: Latin America: Authoritarianism-Dictatorship, Its History in Three Time Frames. An Interpretation through Novels (Master of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, ULA Tachira, February-April, 2018) and History and fiction, an incestuous marriage: Venezuela in violent times, XIX and XX centuries (Master of History of Venezuela, ULA Tachira, May-July, 2018). These seminars are based on the idea of linking historical facts with fiction, to follow the pilgrimage of fictional characters in the daily, almost existential, work of men and women who live in houses, bars, barracks, brothels, parties, family gatherings, in bed, recruits, armed encounters, couples, broken loves, art galleries, prisons, tortures, humiliations, friendships, and all that social scaffolding that is dealt with not by political science but, we could say, a sociology and anthropology of the everyday and intimate life of ordinary Venezuelans. Thus, a panoramic tour will be made of some characters in the most emblematic novels of Venezuelan literature, in relation to the historical evolution marked by the political, rural or urban violence that characterized that time frame.