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<journal-id>1665-8574</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica. Revista de estudios Latinoamericanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-8574</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1665-85742016000200205</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.larev.2016.11.010</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Un detective en busca de la historia: Agosto de Rubem Fonseca]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A detective in the search for history: Rubem Fonseca's August]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Escobar Gómez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Armando]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Filosofía y Letras ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>63</numero>
<fpage>205</fpage>
<lpage>232</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-85742016000200205&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-85742016000200205&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-85742016000200205&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN: Se propone la lectura de Agosto (1990), novela del escritor brasileño Rubem Fonseca, como modelo de análisis de un tipo de ficción que, según nuestra hipótesis, se establece una versión alternativa que tanto se opone como contradice a la historia reconocida como oficial. Agosto contiene una apabullante relación de hechos y cohechos, nombres y apellidos, fechas y locaciones, de un mes clave en la historia contemporánea de Brasil: agosto de 1954, mes de la caída y muerte de Getúlio Vargas. A través de un recuento escrupuloso de situaciones reales (relato histórico), esta novela esconde entre líneas el verdadero grado de su ficción (relato policial), por lo que adquiere una veracidad que no embona bien con el concepto más puro de ficción al poner en tela de juicio la versión oficial a la que se opone y contradice.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT: In this article we propose to study August (1990), a novel of the Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca, as a model for the analysis of a kind of fiction that, according to our hypothesis, is established as an alternative version that opposes and contradicts the history recognized as official. August has an overwhelming account of the facts, bribes, names, dates and locations that took place in a key month for the contemporary Brazilian history: August of 1954, month of the fall and death of Getúlio Vargas. Through a careful account of real situations (historical story), this novel hides in between lines the true extent of his fiction (detective story), which acquires a veracity that does not completely fit within the pure concept of "fiction" by questioning the official version to which it opposes and contradicts.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Novela policíaca]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Novela histórica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Ficción]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Historia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Brasil]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Rubem Fonseca]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Getúlio Vargas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Detective novel]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Historical novel]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Fiction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[History]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Brazil]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Rubem Fonseca]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Getúlio Vargas]]></kwd>
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