“When Words (and excess) Rule” - About Denzil Romero

Abstract

Venezuelan Denzil Romero has re-written History from Literature, and he has done it from the position of irreverence. This paper focuses on La esposa del Dr. Thorne (1988) and La carujada (1990), two novels about Simón Bolívar's lover's life and Pedro Carujo´s life, who attempted against Bolivar, respectively. From the consideration of EDUCATION and JUSTICE, I try to reconstruct an (imaginary) archive that I perceive in the background, by which Romero ridicules the discussion  about those “ideas” in the French Revolutionary context, reabsorbed by the XIXth century Latin-American foundational writing, especially S.Bolivar´s.