Resumen

HOUDE, Caroline. La razón de ser de la presencia de Joseph Conrad en El sueño del celta de Mario Vargas Llosa e Historia secreta de Costaguana de Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Valenciana [online]. 2015, vol.8, n.16, pp.101-123. ISSN 2007-2538.

This article aims to offer a study of the current influence of Joseph Conrad's works in Spanish American literature through the analysis of two novels: Historia secreta de Costaguana (2010) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, and El sueño del celta (2010) by Mario Vargas Llosa. In first instance, it presents an overview of conradian influence in twentieth-century America, as it regards to the development of post-colonial critique and it relates as well to the conradian topos of the jungle in Spanish American narrative. Then, it observes how the two novels give priority to determined conradian hypotexts and questions Conrad's contribution to Literature and Postcolonialism.

Palabras llave : Joseph Conrad; Spanish American Narrative; Postcolonial Theory; Mario Vargas Llosa; Juan Gabriel Vásquez.