Influencia del realismo social del Grupo de Guayaquil en la novela infantil J.R. Machete de Edna Iturralde

Abstract

Abstract: Edna Iturralde is actually one of the most influential writers of children and young people literature and She is the pioneer in the narrative ethnohistory of Ecuador, since she has been able to write wonderful stories using situations that are part of the history of our country. J.R. Machete is one of the novels of this author that approaches the historical theme, it is a text that narrates a series of events starring by montuvios characters in the time before the triumph of Ecuadorian Liberalism in 1985. In this work, it has been possible to find some aspects that are related to the stories of the book Los que se van , written by the representatives of the social realism o the Ecuadorian coast in the 30 s, who founded the Guayaquil group and were part of Golden Age of Ecuador s narrative. In this way, it can be affirmed that a great part of the events of this novel are strongly influenced by the social realism of the Generation of the 30s.