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The article reflects on the inconsistencies that Ricardo Palma had to overcome, essentially the internal ones in his beginnings, and then makes general mention of the contradictions he had to face with the detractors of the community, in his adulthood. The contradictions, in this case, are those of a literary and cultural nature, affecting literary creation and historical research, as essential elements for the writing of traditions. Keywords: romanticism, self-criticism, literary tradition, article of customs, historical novel.

This paper examines four Ricardo Palma’s traditions in the light of his contributions to Peruvian national identity. In these traditions, the narrator records the way of being, thinking and acting of the criollo class of the republic, successors of the viceroyalty and the heroes of the conquest. This portrait of criollo habits and ideology constitutes one of Palma’s important contributions to the identity of the Peruvian nation. Keywords: national identity, orality, criolla ideology, The Royal Commentaries, popular sayings.

These lines were pronounced by the author on February 7, 2021 in commemoration of the 188th anniversary of the birth of Ricardo Palma, in an event organized by the Institute that carries his name and is the academic center of the Ricardo Palma University. The author does not refer to the writer’s biography, nor does he analyze his Peruvian traditions, his links with politics or his work as a journalist. He just takes a general look to rescue Palma’s importance in our literature and culture in general by supporting the classic nature he holds. Keywords: intellectual, journalism, politics, literature, biography.

In this essay the Peruvian Tradition, by the Peruvian writer Ricardo Palma, entitled “La conspiración de la saya y el manto”, is analyzed in the light of the theory of the gaze exposed by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in his work “Being and Nothingness”; this analysis is based on the value and the political intentionality of the tapadas limeñas gaze, in the pre-republican Peru. Keywords: Peruvian Tradition, body, gaze, neighbor, power, social conspiracy.

The article reflects on the inconsistencies that Ricardo Palma had to overcome, essentially the internal ones in his beginnings, and then makes general mention of the contradictions he had to face with the detractors of the community, in his adulthood. The contradictions, in this case, are those of a literary and cultural nature, affecting literary creation and historical research, as essential elements for the writing of traditions. Keywords: romanticism, self-criticism, literary tradition, article of customs, historical novel.

Few are the people that Don Ricardo Palma and his first-born Clemente considered as true friends, among them are Luis Benjamín Cisneros and his son Luis Fernán; brothers and children of both characters will also join this fellowship over the years. The actions, attitudes, gestures, and considerations that are reciprocally exchanged by those who consider themselves true friends have particular traits or characteristics which, according to Aristotle, are duration or transcendence in time, loyalty, the shared search for good, and happiness. Could these Aristotelian traits or characteristics be found in the relationship between the Palma and the Cisneros? Discovering this is the purpose that animates the present investigation that wishes to be a contribution to the better knowledge of the characters studied here, and whose influence is undeniable in the history, literature, and Peruvian journalism of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the twentieth century. Keywords: Ricardo Palma, Clemente Palma, Luis Benjamín Cisneros, Luis Fernán Cisneros, Peruvian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This article is based on a technical study of six copies of the Peruvian Traditions belonging to the Ricardo Palma collection of the National Library, which was the basis for the preparation of the final report of the Directorate for the Protection of Collections of the BNP. This report converted into a project, was presented to the Ministry of Culture, an institution that finally resolved, in May 2019, to declare the first complete edition of six volumes of the Peruvian Traditions (1893-1910) as Cultural Heritage of the Nation. Keywords: Ricardo Palma, Peruvian Traditions, National Library of Peru, National Cultural Heritage, Old clothes, moth-eaten clothes, Cachivachería.

This article will examine “Sistema decimal entre los antiguos peruanos” by Ricardo Palma. Palma’s essay argues that the Inkas used the decimal system by departing from a philological analysis of Ollantay and the Royal Commentaries of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. It will consider why this piece is an essay and not a tradición by comparing its constituent elements with the characteristics of the essay as Gómez Martínez theorizes them, including discursivity, lack of a rigid structure, inciting reflection, digression, and vagueness in quoting practices. If Palma does a philological study of Ollantay and the Royal Commentaries, the present article will complete a philological study of Palma’s “Sistema decimal”. Keywords: Ricardo Palma, “Sistema decimal”, essay, discursivity, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Ollantay, Peruvian literature.

The letters between Ricardo Palma and Rafael Altamira, some of them published in the General Epistolary of the traditionist by the Ricardo Palma University, and others in the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library (the last one coming from the Altamira legacy deposited in the Secondary Education Institute Jorge Juan de Alicante) are a first-rate source for research on cultural relations between the two intellectuals. This relationship is paradigmatic of the reestablishment of the bridges of communication brought about by the events of ‘98, in the context of the controversy between Latins and Anglo-Saxons that marked the inter-century period. The letters analyzed in this paper, which cover the period from 1895 to 1910, open a new angle for the analysis of this crucial period in the history of cultural relations between Spain and Latin America since the beginning of the 20th century. Keywords: Ricardo Palma, Rafael Altamira, letters, intellectual and cultural affinity.

Ricardo Palma is probably one of the most controversial Peruvian intellectuals of his time and probably also one of the most discussed writers since his first « Tradiciones» that broke with the scheme of the known literary genres were made known. His origins have been appreciated in different ways by the critics of his time and even more so by later critics based on ideological rather than literary considerations. The present article reveals the content of the unprejudiced readings of Ricardo Palma’s work made by the author in recent years and consigned in the recently published book Ricardo Palma Caballero en su burro. Negritude, dissidence and utopia. It is a book where it is attempted to explain from a meticulous and deep examination of the literary work of the Patriarch of the Peruvian Letters, of his abundant correspondence and of his active participation in the political contest, the committed content of his life and work with his dissimulated Afro-descendant origins, taking into account the racist environment of the time in which he had to live and write. Keywords: Traditions, negritude, dissidence, utopia, racism, identity, colonialism, slavery, Americanity, asnography.