The Venezuelan independence period, which officially begins in the early nineteenth century (but that is gestated in the socioeconomic conditions of the previous century), has been a recurring theme on whose fiction creators of historical novels, as it constitutes the point starting from all that will be the development of the republican life (Elmore, 1997). Some authors approached from the glorification of the heroism of the patriots, others, however, stop to explore a wider dimension of this fact and, without avoiding the political and military strategies implemented in the field of battle, explore a whole range of situations traditionally considered outside the historiography, such as: customs, traditions and actions of the subordinate characters (slaves, women, mixed). For this reason, this research is addressed to analyze which aspects of everyday life that are present in the texts: Doña Inés contra el olvido (1992), by Ana Teresa Torres, and Boves el urogallo (1972) and Manuel Piar, caudillo de dos colores (1987), both of Francisco Herrera Luque. In the novels discussed there is a range of elements that show, from the literary imagination, an overview of currently more inclusive and invite us to rethink the War of Independence as a complex period in Venezuelan history that is not restricted merely to military action. In this sense, the approach of Ricoeur (1995), Veyne (1989) and White (1992), among others, will serve as part of the theoretical foundations that have emerged to demonstrate the overlapping dialogue between history and literature.