From the chronicle to the novel without fiction: fabulous dare of the human word

Abstract

This text, in close travel, tries to envision that the chronicle does nothing, but tell stories and the stories of both humans and gods is what survives, what remains in the memory, be it as journalistic work or mythology. Much has been talked about the possible whys. According to Tomás Eloy Martínez, the data amazes us, but does not move us. There’s the secret, the difference between the number that gives the size of the fact and the word that tells it. There is also the reason why it is said that there has been a second boom in Latin America, because the chronicle born with the modernist poets at the end of the 19th century, and arrives in 1937 in L’Éspoir, the first non-fiction novel, and continues to flow with renewed creator force in all our countries ambits.