Historiographical Narrative Systems: The Reality of Fiction in Pedro Bohórquez. The Inca of El Tucumán

Abstract

This article addresses two interrelated questions. On the one hand, it questions the statute of fiction, including narrative among its modalities. On the other hand, it focuses on the specificity of the historiographic operation and its connection with fictional modalities. In order to discuss these issues, we look into the interweaving of the narrativist philosophy of history and systems theory, taking into consideration key authors such as Hayden White and Niklas Luhmann. Finally, a narrative in particular, Pedro Bohorquez, the Inca of El Tucuman, written by Teresa Piossek Prebisch, will be approached, enabling the observation of this theoretical cross linking at work. And, likewise, putting into an appropriate perspective the problem, features and scope of the fictional resource within the framework of what is here labeled as historiographical narrative systems.