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This paper aims to analyze how Latin-American travel novels deconstruct the ideology of European stories that legitimize a certain speech about peripheral countries. In order to do so, we propose to follow César Aira’s (1993) discussions about the stages of construction of the exotic through literature. It can be seen that self-fiction is a strategy, since it promotes a kind of anarchitextuality, an anarchy in the genre’s « architextuality » (Génette, 1982), breaking the testimony pact, truth’s factual discourse and the narrative’s linearity.