Un Viaje (book)

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Felipe Pardo y Aliaga.

Un Viaje is an 1840 book on travel and customs by Felipe Pardo y Aliaga.[1][2][3] Pardo y Aliaga's travel writings introduced the satirical travel and customs genre to writing about the Andes.[4]

This story has appeared from early on in all anthologies of Peruvian literature and in school textbooks. It is popularly known as "El Nino Goyito's Journey" or simply "El Nino Goyito".

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cornejo Polar, Jorge: Nuevas ideas sobre Pardo y Aliaga. Anales de la literatura hispanoamericana, 1999. 28: 519-546. ISSN 0210-4547
  2. ^ Samaniego, Antenor: Literatura. Texto y Antología. Tomo 5. Lima, Librería Arica, sétima edición, 1964.
  3. ^ Sánchez, Luis Alberto: La literatura peruana. Derrotero para una historia cultural del Perú, tomo III. Cuarta edición y definitiva. Lima, P. L. Villanueva Editor, 1975.
  4. ^ Steven Boldy - Before the Boom: Four Essays on Latin-American Literature 1981 -Page 18 "The form was first introduced by Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (1806-68) in his short-lived satirical journal El Espejo de Mi Tierra (1840),3 and ... Likewise, 'El viaje' satirizes the narrow provincialism and feckless indecisiveness of the creole upper classes."