Rafael Díaz Ycaza: un Prometeo de las letras

The article reviews the literary career of one of the greatest Guayaquileño writers of the post Thirty Generation period: Rafael Díaz Ycaza. An extraordinary storyteller, the author begins with a realist debt very close to that of his predecessors but, little by little, he transitions to the poetic...

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Autor: Dávila Vázquez, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/829
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/829
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Rafael Díaz Ycaza
cuento ecuatoriano
transición
fantástico
realismo
poetas ecuatorianos
narradores ecuatorianos
literatura ecuatoriana
Ecuadorian story
transition
fantastic realism
Ecuadorian poets
Ecuadorian fiction writers
Ecuadorian literature
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Sumario:The article reviews the literary career of one of the greatest Guayaquileño writers of the post Thirty Generation period: Rafael Díaz Ycaza. An extraordinary storyteller, the author begins with a realist debt very close to that of his predecessors but, little by little, he transitions to the poetic and fantastic, never detaching himself from realism, in his penetrating analysis of subjects closely related to his environment: maritime adventure, the confrontation with death, an obsession with suicide –perceptible in some of his best works, including “Rosamel” and “Las equivocaciones” (The mistakes). A poet of remarkable qualities, he is, on more than one occasion, at the same height as his great contemporaries: David Ledesma Vásquez, Ileana Espinel Cedeño and Fernando Cazón Vera, the outstanding names of the poetry of their city (Guayaquil). The subjects are close to those of his fiction, but his song of the city predominates, which occurs in different creative moments.