Tradiciones Peruanas
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The Tradiciones Peruanas is a compendium of some of the writings of the Peruvian writer Ricardo Palma
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that relate events based on historical fact and that are descriptive of the way people lived in different moments in the History of Peru
. Their value as historical sources is limited, but their literary value is great.
Some of the Tradiciones peruanas have been translated into English under the title The Knights of the Cape and Thirty-seven Other Selections from the Tradiciones Peruanas of Ricardo Palma (ed. Harriet de Onís, 1945) and more recently under the title Peruvian Traditions (ed. Christopher Conway and trans. Helen Lane, Oxford University Press, 2004).
The adjective "Peruanas" (Peruvian) was not used by Palma. The adjective was used for the first time in 1890 on their first publication in Argentina
.
There are in total 453 Tradiciones of which six are set during the Incan Empire, 339 during the Viceroyalty, 43 during the Emancipation
, 49 during the Republic
and 16 that cannot be placed within a specific period.
Ricardo Palma
Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.- Biography :...
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Introduction
The writings, which are collectively known as the Tradiciones, started appearing in 1863 in newspapers and magazines. They are short stories of historical fictionHistorical fiction
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...
that relate events based on historical fact and that are descriptive of the way people lived in different moments in the History of Peru
History of Peru
The history of Peru spans several millennia, extending back through several stages of cultural development in the mountain region and the coastal desert....
. Their value as historical sources is limited, but their literary value is great.
Some of the Tradiciones peruanas have been translated into English under the title The Knights of the Cape and Thirty-seven Other Selections from the Tradiciones Peruanas of Ricardo Palma (ed. Harriet de Onís, 1945) and more recently under the title Peruvian Traditions (ed. Christopher Conway and trans. Helen Lane, Oxford University Press, 2004).
Characteristics
Some of the key characteristics of the Tradiciones are:- Use of popular language full of proverbs, sayings, songs and verses.
- Some stories are based on historical events that are backed up by archives or documents (Palma was librarian of the Biblioteca Nacional del PerúBiblioteca Nacional del PerúThe Biblioteca Nacional del Perú is the national library of Peru, located in Lima. It is the country's oldest and most important library. Like the majority of Peruvian libraries, it is a non-circulating library.- History :...
) - Other stories with no firm historical basis are used to explain facts, such as the names of streets and houses in Lima.
- Oral tone, often containing a dialog with the reader. (The writer sometimes refers to himself in the third person plural).
- Critique of political, social, and religious institutions of the era.
- Mostly set in LimaLimaLima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
, but with a significant portion of the stories set in the rest of what used to be the Viceroyalty of PeruViceroyalty of PeruCreated in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima...
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Publications
The Tradiciones were published in the following order:- 1872 First part.
- 1874 Second part.
- 1875 Third part.
- 1877 Fourth part.
- 1883 Tradiciones, from the first to the sixth part recompilation.
- 1889 Ropa vieja, seventh part.
- 1891 Ropa apolillada, eighth part.
- 1906 Mis Últimas Tradiciones, ninth part.
- 1910 Apéndice a mis últimas tradiciones peruanas, tenth part.
The adjective "Peruanas" (Peruvian) was not used by Palma. The adjective was used for the first time in 1890 on their first publication in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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There are in total 453 Tradiciones of which six are set during the Incan Empire, 339 during the Viceroyalty, 43 during the Emancipation
Emancipation
Emancipation means the act of setting an individual or social group free or making equal to citizens in a political society.Emancipation may also refer to:* Emancipation , a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1979...
, 49 during the Republic
Republic
A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of...
and 16 that cannot be placed within a specific period.
Secondary reading sources
- Andreu, Alicia G. "Una nueva aproximación al lenguaje en las Tradiciones peruanas de Ricardo Palma". Spanish American Literature: From Romanticism to 'Modernismo' in Latin America. Eds. David William Foster & Daniel Altamiranda. New York & London: Garland, 1997: 175-190.
- Aviles Pérez, Luis. "Al margen de las Tradiciones de Ricardo Palma". I>Hispania 20.1 (Feb. 1937): 61-68.
- Bazán, Dora. Mujeres, ideas y estilo en 'Las tradiciones' de Palma. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma/Universitaria, 2001.
- Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel. "Elaboración de fuentes en 'Carta canta' y 'papelito jabla lengua'". Kentucky Romance Quarterly 24.4 (1977): 433-439.
- Conway, Christopher. "Introduction". In Palma, Ricardo, Peruvian Traditions. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004: xix-xxxvii;
- Durán Luzio, Juan. "Ricardo Palma, cronista de una sociedad barroca". Revista Iberoamericana 140 (julio-septiembre 1987): 581-593.
- Leavitt, Sturgis E. "Ricardo Palma and the Tradiciones Peruanas. Hispania 34.4 (Nov 1951): 349-353.
- Mariátegui, José Carlos. "Ricardo Palma, Lima y la Colonia". In siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana. México: ERP, 1988: 218-227;
- Mariátegui, José Carlos. "Ricardo Palma, Lima and the Colony". In Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality. Trans. Marjory Urquidi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971: 195-203.
- Miró, César. Don Ricardo Palma: El Patriarca de las Tradiciones. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1953.
- Moreano, Cecilia. Relaciones literarias entre España y el Perú: la obra de Ricardo Palma. Prólogo de Pura Fernández. Lima, Perú: Universidad Ricardo Palma, Editorial Universitaria, 2004.
- Palma, Edith. "Ricardo Palma y sus Tradiciones peruanas". Tradiciones peruanas completas. Por Ricardo Palma. Madrid: Aguilar, 1964: xvii-xl
- Palma, Ricardo. Tradiciones peruanas. Eds. Julio Ortega y Flor María Rodríguez-Arenas. Nanterre, France: Allca XXe, Université Paris X, 1996. This edition of the Tradiciones of Ricardo Palma contains numerous excellent articles about the author and his work.
- Puccini, Darío. "La doble oralidad y otras claves de lectura de Ricardo Palma". Spanish American Literature: From Romanticism to 'Modernismo' in Latin America. Eds. David William Foster & Daniel Altamiranda. New York & London: Garland, 1997: 169-174.
- Rodríguez-Peralta, Phyllis. "Liberal Undercurrents in Palma's Tradiciones peruanas". Spanish American Literature: From Romanticism to 'Modernismo' in Latin America. Eds. David William Foster & Daniel Altamiranda. New York & London: Garland, 1997: 153-167.
- Stowell, Ernest. "Ricardo Palma and the Legal Profession". Hispania 25.2 (May 1942): 158-160.
- Tanner, Roy L. "The Humour Of Irony And Satire In The Tradiciones Peruanas". Columbia University of Missouri Press, 1986.
- Tauzin Castellanos, Isabelle. Claves de una coherencia: las "Tradiciones peruanas" de Ricardo Palma. Lima : Universidad Ricardo Palma, 1999.
- Vargas Ugarte, Rubén. "Don Ricardo Palma y la historia". Journal of Inter-American Studies 9.2 (Apr 1967): 213-224.
External links
- The "Tradiciones Peruanas" at Wikisource
- The "Tradiciones Peruanas" at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes