De la apelación como requisito para narrar la historia en Columbus de Ignacio Solares

This article analyses the impact of the Mexican Revolution on national litera- ture, specifically on Ignacio Solares’s novel Columbus, as well as the impor- tance of historic discourse as a literary objective. Solares’s work recounts the historic event from the perspective of one of its characters, who is being interviewed after the event by a journalist whose goal is the recovery first- hand of the revolutionary discourse. However, the alcoholism of the protag- onist makes the dialogue between both characters difficult and unreliable. Solares manages to question what until now has been considered the sol- emn truth about the Revolution, discussing History by trying to reconstruct it in the words of an alcoholic man and emphasizing the importance of the reader/listener as a receptor of these stories, without whom there would be no need for them to be told.