Will new historical novel or a return to the romantic novel of the nineteenth century?

Abstract

El país de la canela (2008),by William Ospina (1954) deserves attention, among others, and the subject matter that is at first sight. Moving away from the current issue of their Colombian contemporary narrative, in the XXI century, Ospina wrote a work in which "becomes" the subject of the arrival of the Spanish in American territory, in this case, the expedition undertaken by Orellana around 1541 in search of cinnamon. That appellant, in general terms, in Latin American literature topic brings up questions in several directions, the most immediate in the field of literary studies, this novel would be if there is a continuity in the form of treatment that historical period and otherwise, if the work can be framed in the trend with which the twentieth century closes in Latin America or, on the contrary, is making way for a new proposal.