Pharaoh Angola

This paper analyses the novel Faraón Angola by the Valle del Cauca author Rodrigo Parra Sandoval. Three aspects are taken into account. The first, education as a liberating project for the human being through the archetypal school La Paloma. The second is the analysis of memory (taking into account the theory of the French anthropologist Jöel Candau) based on the process of reinventing the past through the creation of stories by the protagonist, Micaela, to achieve a life project and transform her reality. The last analysis is a comparative literature between the novel María by Jorge Isaacs and Faraón Angola, in which Rodrigo Parra Sandoval’s novel is proposed as a subversive rewriting of María, in which a new heroine is presented who triumphs thanks to her courageous love: Micaela. The present work highlights Rodrigo Parra Sandoval’s research and literary work, while at the same time providing a novel analysis of Jorge Isaacs’ novel.