Sobre la utilidad e inutilidad de la categoría nueva novela histórica

Abstract

This study is a criticism review of the New Historical Novel category proposed by Seymour Menton in 1993. It is suggested that the implied reading frame in this category would excessively show the deconstructive operations of this novels, limiting their estetic and criticism potential to their capacty of dismantle the official discourse of historicism. It is proposed, therefore, extend its potential meanings, including their ability to rework the past, multiplying it, showing as always capable of being reinvented and thus revitalizing its own historicity. To do this, it is resorted to historical novel theory of Lukacs and to the characterization of the live of the signs in the novels that proposed by authors such as Noe Jitrik, Antonio Candido and Julia Kristeva.