| Summary: | In his work, the Ecuadorian novelist Javier Vásconez uses new techniques and themes in order to escape a heavy literary tradition and give visibility to his fiction. At the same time, he seeks dialogue with the great names of world literature and strives to present Ecuador in a new light. Javier Vásconez thus invents a new geography for his country while highlighting and reversing the traditional themes usually approached by indigenism. The intertextuality revisited by Javier Vásconez propels foreign novelists to the rank of fictional characters: it gives prominence to European or North American-born characters, whether fictitious or inspired by famous authors, while reducing the natives, indigenous, white, or racially mixed, to fleeting shadows and mere parts of the setting.
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