La carroza de Bolívar (2012), by Evelio Rosero: let's go to carnival!

Abstract

The diegesis of La carroza de Bolívar (2012), a novel by Evelio Rosero, is inscribed in a fully festive chronotope since it begins on December 28, the day of the Holy Innocents, and ends a few days later, after the Great Parade of the floats of the Carnival of Pasto. This spatio-temporal framework allows us to question the period of Colombia's independence from a new perspective and this article proposes to analyze the resignification of the massacre of the Navidad Negra, which occurred in 1822, that takes place in the novel through the prism of the carnival.