Vigilia del almirante

Synopsis of Vigilia del almirante

«Vigilia del almirante» is the historical novel by Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Bibliotex, S.L. in hardback (287 pages, in Spanish).

A fictionalised portrait of Christopher Columbus as an ordinary, stubborn and obsessed man who unwittingly triggered a cosmographic and cultural event that marked two millennia. History stole his name and it took five hundred years for him to be born as a myth. Written from the New World, it vindicates the indigenous universe and claims it for its inhabitants.

Published in 2001 in the Millenium collection. The best novels in Spanish of the 20th century. Includes a prologue by Javier Tomeo.

For readers of Latin American fiction and historical novels, with an interest in the revision of the discovery of America and its myths.