CERVANTES - PRECURSOR OF CONTEMPORANEITY

The changes which are happening in the Latin American narrative since Cervantes allow one to establish relations between his work and the New Latin American Historical Novel and consider himself the ancestor of this new narrative genre. The changes in the way of narrating novels and short stories take one to believe that there was a maturing process which affected the Latin American writers and their literary productions. This process shows itself through the search of a way to explain the reality through the deliberated invention of fictional elements which the senses can not perceive and they represent the individual efforts of Cervantes' genial imagination. It made that these narratives acquired especial features which were analyzed by Ainsa ( 1991) in terms of this new narrative genre. The first modern novel - Dom Quixote de la Mancha, ( 1605-1615) de Miguel de Cervantes - induced to a new vision of the way literature is made characterized by the imperious will of the author of "make it in another way" and guided by a certain ascetic ideal which runs throughout all Cervantes' writings. This new way of making Literature tuned out to influence the Latin American writers who were seeking anxiously to break off with the literary tradition. Itls worth for reminding that the term "make it in another way" has been applied in this study in the sense Nietzsche (1987) did it in Genealogia da Moral. The new way of making narrative by the Latin American writers revels not only changes in the way Literature has been made, but also a reaction against the centralization of the focus on the social problems which banalized the writings, elevating them, in this way, to the most reputable and polifonic novels.