Mesa J. Historia académica y ficción histórica

Autor

Michael Roessner (University of Vienna, Austria)

Título

Translating history - Relations between historiography and historical literature in different cultural contexts

Resumen

Based on a concept of Translatio/n, i.e. cultural translation, the paper tries to discuss the relationship of historical fiction and historiography in different locations and periods (cronotopoi) Starting with Alonso de Ercilla’s "La Araucana" and Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca’s "Comentarios reales" (Hispanoamérica, Renacimiento), two literary works which translate history into fiction, but also literary concepts into historiography, we shall arrive at Central-European texts of the 20th century (Hofmannsthal, Musil, Csokor, Bernhard) using historical disguise to express contemporary problems or try to subvert historiography by means of literature.