%0 Journal Article %T £¿Ficci¨®n o realidad? El valor sociol¨®gico de Relato de un n¨¢ufrago de Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez %A Rivas Hern¨¢ndez %A Ascensi¨®n %J Acta literaria %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-68482011000100004 %X there are works that are not born with literary vocation, but they eventually end up in literature. this is what happens in relato de un n¨¢ufrago, a short novel by gabriel garc¨ªa m¨¢rquez since its appearance with that title in 1970. beforehand, the text had appeared in the form of newspaper reporting in fourteen deliveries in the bogot¨¢ newspaper el espectador. there is no difference in content between both texts, but the "prologue" that precedes the edition of 70 is very significant: it provides data on the character that belies the image that it was in 1955; enumerates the reasons for the sinking, which splashed and overthrew the dictator rojas pinilla; says what happened with the hero, and suggests the reasons why that text was published as a book ffteen years later. the reading of the work is different as read or not this "prologue". this paper reveals the sociological literature value: a historical event that becomes fictional, and that from his position as a literary object, infuences then in reality. the paper will analyze all these aspects and literary elements of narrative and those that link it to the reality. %K history %K literature %K reality %K journalism %K sociology. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-68482011000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en