The fugitive sense of the independence in The Robinson Island of Arturo Uslar Pietri

Abstract

The island of Arturo Uslar Pietri's Róbinson is, from our point of view, one of the most successful works, inside the production of this Venezuelan who is born in Caracas in 1901 and dies in 2006.  In this work we will treat three important features of the production Uslariana that stand out inside this historical novel, which are included in the urgency that exists in the author of turning the pencil into paintbrush of the thought. The first one of them will be to treat to Róbinson's Island as historical novel, the second one, his belonging also to another literary very known branch, since it is the literature of trips and the third one, the relation of the writing with the reality and the thought; problematics that sublies across the whole text. This historical novel narrates one of the most important periods. The narrator chooses the moment in which she breaks the limits of the territory of Venezuela to turn into a Latin-American and world event. The work is a reflection on the sense that had this event for the Latin Americans, principally across the thought of one of his bigger ideologists, Simón Rodríguez.