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The work of Tomás Carrasquilla (1858-1940) straddles the consciousness of living in a period of radical changes in Colombian society (19th and 20th), marked by a social order that is the product of an internal rhythm of readjustment of the province of Antioquia (his place of birth) on its way towards modernization, and the traces of confrontation between the political currents of centralized control and federalism: the result of ideologies that were generated with the beginning of the republican order after Independence (1810).
From a chronological point of view, the writing of his fictional world belongs to the period of Regeneration (1885-1930) , the “golden age" of political conservatism, following several decades of economic and political instability, and multiple civil wars that ravaged the country throughout the nineteenth century. However his work is also marked by the certainty that despite all the tensions of post-construction of the Colombian nation, the elements of outdated structures inherited from the colonial order persisted. Hence the value of this writer and sociologist of aesthetic imagination (Americanism / Regionalism vs.
Europeanism) and the stresses and strains in the course of history and cultural
politics in Colombia.
This paper intends not only to pay homage to this man to whom tribute has been rendered for one hundred and fifty years after his birth, but also to show through the analysis of his short novel entitled “Luterito" (1899) how his “ passion for truth" was not blinded by the religious fanaticism that eventually penetrated so deep in the heart of his own land (Antioquia) with the encouragement of the policies of “Romanization" led by Pope Pius IX.