From the Royal Commentaries of Inca Garcilaso to the Royal Commentaries of Antonio Cisneros

Abstract

In his Comentarios reales, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega tried to build a memory, a genealogy which explained his identity and, by extension, the identity. More than three hundred years later, Antonio Cisneros in his poetry book Comentarios reales (1964), will also think about Peruvian history and feel the interstices of identity. Although aparendy the aim seems to be the same, it is in fact a subversive exercise in which Cisneros questions that fortunate crossbreeding the Inca told us about, with the intention of elaborating a very personal interpretation of the history of Peru. In the following pages I will analyse the aforementioned differences and the reasons why in the 1960s the Peruvian poet writes a book of this kind.