Pacho O’Donnell y el revisionismo histórico argentino, entre fútbol y ficción

Abstract

This article analyzes a production of one of the great exponents of Argentine historical revisionism, Pacho O’Donnell, doubly relegated to oblivion because it is, on the one hand, a text of the 1970s and, on the other hand, a fictional tale. “Falucho” is a story that allegorically reformulates the events of the May Revolution, reconfiguring the opposition between Spaniards and Criollos in a dichotomy between elites and people, and thus aims to deconstruct the great national story about the independence deed from Spain. In doing so, however, Pacho O’Donnell reveals the mechanisms that preside over his own historiographic practice; thus, the story appears to us as an invitation to read the author against himself. 

Keywords: historical revisionism, Argentina, May 25th, fiction, historiography.