El antihéroe y las injusticias económicas y sociales en la novela, Polvo y Ceniza, de Eliécer Cárdenas Espinoza

Abstract

Abstract: The Ecuadorian social reality at the beginning of the 20th century was marked by class struggle social, giving priority to the landowners and leaving aside the most needy and marginalized. Thus, several Ecuadorian authors wrote novels as a protest to the discrimination. In this sense, the present essay aims to analyze the development of the antihero character in the face of social and economic injustices in the novel Polvo y Ashes of Eliécer Cárdenas Espinoza. The methodology used is qualitative in nature. bibliographic-documentary type with historical and hermeneutical method. From the point of view of the character, the profile of the Ecuadorian antihero Robin Hood is addressed, proving to be solidarity with poor people, given that Naún Briones, the main character, belonged to a society full of inequalities and marginalization, factors that motivated the search of justice with their own hands. To obtain a precise investigation, the Ecuadorian context at that time and the social and economic injustices of that then, allowing the development of the argumentative essay concatenated with reality social society of the 20th century and the novel.