Ángeles del abismo: an imaginary construction of the Novohispan Mexico

Abstract

Ángeles del Abismo (2004), by Enrique Serna, is signed up as a historical novel because it unfolds into the reference of seventeenth-century Mexico, rewriting it according to the symbolic structures of fiction. On the other hand, as established by Seymour Menton (1993), Angels of the Abyss (2004) meets the main features of what he has called the new historical novel. The distortion of history is present, since it is enough to remember that Serna was based on a document from the General Archive of the Nation (AGN) from which, he affirms, transforms to integrate new elements into history that would allow him to handle another way intrigues, thus opening to all possibilities of fiction.