She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar.

We believe that this endeavor should involve an urgent search for new writers eager to converse with our literary past and, in particular, with the Davilian legacy.Įl Fakir (the mandatory title that his friends used when addressing the great writer from Cuenca) Publishing House therefore aspires to become a link for critical and literary production that will enable us to think and write about the present, from a promontory that equally considers the titanic figure of César Dávila Andrade and the sidereal climate of cyberspace.Gabriela Aleman, based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and film studies professor. We are convinced of the need to explore the expressive potential of the new electronic and digital environment vis-à-vis Ecuadorian literature, and of the importance of identifying and looking for audiences for XXI century Ecuadorian literature. We believe that the current situation of our literature – the exhaustion of a recognizable literary discourse, the bankruptcy of cultural institutions, the failing of literary consumption circuits, the aging of the cultural reproduction media and the absence of a critical project – is very similar to the literary production and representation crisis of the mid-twentieth century we see in César Dávila Andrade’s oeuvre not only a model of writing but also a host of narrative solutions to the great challenges of our time. We believe that the proposal of any new radical postulation on literature never ceases to be traditional and it is in this sense, then, and in that spirit, that we raise the need to see the advancement of Ecuadorian literature through the gesture of looking back at the legacy of our literature and identify a model in said legacy. The constant search for a significant revitalization and rethinking of Ecuadorian literature, especially in this contemporary transition into the digital age. The admiration and enthusiasm we feel for the narrative oeuvre (above all, but also for his poetry) of who we consider the most important Ecuadorian writer of the 20 th century: César Dávila Andrade and 2. El Fakir Publishing House was created as the result of the convergence of two long-held wishes of its founders: 1.

Álbum de familia by Gabriela Alemán