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This article presents four exemplary compositional dimensions of the literary piece El Desierto Prodigioso y Prodigio del Desierto by Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela. In the first place, is specified the disciplinary foundations of a poetics of colonial fiction and the relevance of the selected work. Next, the article delves into the intertextualities of "El Desierto", that outlines the mechanisms of appropriation and resignification that allow the cultural subjects of the "New World" to destabilize the hegemonic cultural models of the metropolis. Concomitant to this study, the paratexts of the system are dismantled to prove that some of the subversions within the dispute over the signifiers of the "Contrarreforma" are veiled with fictional resources of the highest heuristic value. Finally, we examine the metafictional elements of the text and the statute of "poetic in itself" of the literary work, from the synchronic cut of its generic projection, in the Field of Reference of the seventeenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]