Alfredo Iriarte was a Bogotan writer that published most of his work on the late 20th century. Despite his fictional works cover three different genres (chronicles, short stories and novel) and he has been published by different publishing houses in and out Colombia, he is somewhat a public secret within the Colombian literary field. Due to this, the present research constitutes a first critical approach to his fictional work. This is developed from an aesthetic evaluation of the three genres mentioned, their procedures, resources and most relevant ideas within the works. At the same time, this research develops a socio-historical interpretation of the literary works, which puts in perspective the context faced by the author and the position he assumed and standed for in regard of the problems of his interest. This allows us to understand the "historical fiction" of Alfredo Iriarte as a reaction to the official historical discourse in Colombia and to the mythification of history in the broad context of Latin America.