Abstract

MURILLO DENCKER, Juan. The Principal Enemy (or In Praise of Madness). Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2014, n.17, pp.48-51. ISSN 2306-8671.

Jaime Manrique wrote the novel "Cervantes Street" (2011) in New York. The novel was presented in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) in August of 2012. The present essay is an approximation of the book, a literary stroll led by the principal enemy who is nourished by jealousies, envies, resentments and perfidies-when not by "mourning and grief," but beyond these human miseries it is a reflection about the art of rewriting the life of a writer consecrated in the universal canon, this author subject to continuous reinventions from the mentioned novel revealed to any perspicacious reader, a complex number of reconstructed inscriptions of the biography of the author and how they are inserted into the plot of his writings to enrich the fiction. Thus, from Cervantes we observe the wink of Jorge Manrique to Smollet, Fielding, Menard, Borges and finally a French writer (Michel Lafon) when they recreate stories for the delight of the reader. The essay was read on the occasion of the visit of Mr. Manrique to Bolivia.

Keywords : Enemy; Quixote; Apocryphal; Chess; Falsary; Fraudster; Hoax.

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