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La novela Don Helmuth, el colono (1960) sigue las pautas criollistas para tratar el tema de la colonizaci車n alemana en el sur de Chile hacia mediados del siglo XIX. Aunque se public車 hacia el centenario de la llegada de los germanos y es una de las pocas obras en espa ol que describe el proceso de asentamiento de la comunidad, ha sido desatendida por las cr赤ticas. Este ensayo analiza el tema de narrativas %26quot;m赤ticas%26quot; fundacionales para examinar el desarrollo del protagonista, Helmuth Hensau, y demuestra, por una parte, que el texto desmitifica la figura del inmigrante al incluir las actividades delictivas del personaje principal y sus compatriotas, convirtiendo a la novela en suplemento a la historiograf赤a, la cual usualmente omite dichos aspectos negativos. Por otra parte, plantea que estas mismas actividades il赤citas permiten al narrador integrar simb車licamente a los alemanes a su patria adoptiva como un nuevo %26quot;tipo%26quot; nacional chileno. The novel Don Helmuth, the colonist (1960) follows the criollista model to treat the subject of German colonization in southern Chile. Although it was published on near the centennial of German arrival, and is one of the few works in Spanish that portrays the establishment of the community, it has been largely ignored by critics. This essay analyzes the theme of %26quot;mythical%26quot; foundational narratives to examine the development of the protagonist, Helmuth Hensau. On the one hand, it demonstrates that the text demythifies the immigrant figure by including the criminal activities of the main character and those of his compatriots, and that the novel supplements historiography by discussing these negative aspects of settlement which are generally omitted. On the other, it proposes that it is precisely these illicit activities that permit the narrator to symbolically incorporate Germans into their adopted homeland as a new Chilean national %26quot;type%26quot;.
