Manuel Gonzalez Prada (1848-1918) : sa vie, son oeuvre en prose, sa présence dans l'histoire du Pérou, sa contribution à la pensée démocratique péruvienne

Manuel Gonzalez Prada (1848-1918) : His life, his prose writings, his presence in the history of Peru, his contribution to the peruvian democratic thinking

• Auteur / Autrice : Ivan Quezada Moya
• Direction : Bernard Lavallé
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Études ibériques et latino-américaines
• Date : Soutenance en 1990
• Etablissement(s) : Bordeaux 3

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Pérou -- 1829-1919

Pensée politique et sociale

González Prada, Manuel (1844-1918)

Résumé

A la suite de la defaite essuyee par la confederation perou-bolivienne face au chili dans la guerre du pacifiqu (1879-1883), cet ecrivain peruvien, precurseur du modernisme dans son pays, entreprend une analyce et une critique exhaustive de la societe peruvienne dans tous ses aspects: politique, religieux, culturel, educationnel et social. Il se devait d'insuffler du courage a ses compatriotes, apres la defaite. Se consacrant alors a prononcer des discours et a ecrire des articles dans ce but, il constate la corruption et la prostration socio-economique dans lesquelles se trouve le perou. Parallelement, il evolue dans le domaine philosophique et politique, de l'anti-clericalisme a la libre-pensee et de l'anarchisme aux idees socialistes; son ecriture se fait plus claire, riche en images et en expressions lapidaires. Son travail et ses idees ne se concretisent pas en un programme politique parce que, plus qu'un homme politique, il etait ecrivain. Cependant, sa contribution est vitale pour le developpement des idees democratiques au perou. Apres sa mort, il devient l'inspirateur de la jeunesse peruvienne. Son oeuvre est source de reflexion et de debats. Les problemes et les maux du perou qu'il a denonces sont toujours en attente d'une solution.

Following the defeat of the peruvian-bolivian confederacy in the pacific war (1879-1883) against chile, this peruvian writer, a forerunner in modernism in his own country, undertook an exhaustive analytical survey of the different aspects of the peruvian society in the fields of politics, religion, culture, education and social conditions. His aim was to inspire his defeated fellow country-men with courage. With this object in view, he dedicated himself to delivering speeches and writing articles in which he noted the state of corruption and socio-economic prostration peru was then engulfed in. Meanwhile, in the philosophical and political fields he was evolving fromp anti-clericalism into freethinking and from anarchism into socialism; his style was also getting more limpid with a wealth of imagery and terse phrases. His work and ideology did not materialize into a political manifest because he was more of a writer than of a politician yet, his contribution to the development of the democratic thought in peru is momentous. After his death, he was a great influence on peruvian young people. His work is still a source of reflection and debates: the peruvian problems and evils he exposed are still waiting to be solved.