Ricardo Palma: three sieges for several generations within a single life

Abstract

Being close to the bicentenary, an assessment of the Palma’s literary work is done, along with his international impact—greater than the one González Prada held—, his legacy to Peruvian writers from his time and today and how important the year 1919 was due to Palma’s death and the birth of the Centenary Generation. Finally, his continuity and transcendent classicism from the dialectical of life and death will be also assessed.