The function of writing as testimonial discourse: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

• Autor: Oré de la Cruz, Kent Wilander
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.urp.edu.pe:article/5756
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.urp.edu.pe/index.php/archivovallejo/article/view/5756
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: writing; testimony; fiction; reality; escritura; testimonio; ficción; realidad

The present study aims to analyze and establish communicative lines of convergence and opposition between the life and work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, in the craft of writing as testimonial discourse. Although these two writers may appear to have different positions or interests, the value they both attach to language as to the Hispanic American culture of classical knowledge and art cannot be dismissed. Likewise, both writers belong to an important historical period, within which and from each of their geographical spaces they seek to leave in writing the ideal of a century (XVI-XVII), that is, the ideological project of their time, channeled through their own beliefs and ideas.