Convergencia entre la historia y la vanguardia en la novela María Joaquina en la vida y en la muerte de Jorge Dávila Vázquez

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Abstract:In the present work an analysis of the historical facts that originated in the government of Ignacio de Veintemilla, dictator and former president of Ecuador, and the avant-garde narration of Jorge Dávila Vásquez in his novel María Joaquina en la vida y en la muerte was carried out. The story that unfolds in this novel focuses on the facts of violence and waste that arose during the presidency of Veintemilla, who mistreated the people and condemned them to poverty. History and literature are related in the novel since the writer uses history to narrate the acts of violence that a dictator could commit. The way of narrating the events changes due to the eagerness for renewal of the 60's in which the work was written, where the author makes use of different narrative techniques from the avant-garde, in addition to the new way of expressing reality known as magical realism, as it mixes real elements with many fantastic or supernatural elements, distorting the sequence of narrative order of the story.