The modernist chronicle and its realization in "Viendo pasar las cosas"

Abstract

We propose to make a first approach to the analysis of the content of the column "Seeing things happen" that Enrique Carrillo (Cabotín) published in various magazines and newspapers in Lima between 1904 and 1916. Secondly, I will try to explain why Carrillo's chronicle manifests itself in a mixed and multiform form, without a generic model predominating. Finally I will comment on some of the most important chronicles that offer an initial overview of the author's chronicle work. In that sense, the publication of his chronicles in a book corresponds to a 1957 edition that he prepared himself. All the quotes I extract are from that text, although I refer, as a matter of fact, to part of his work that was not published in book form.