Jorgenrique Adoum: Imagined Autobiographies. Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda and Ciudad sin ángel

Abstract

The literary work of the Ecuadorian Jorgenrique Adoum is characterized by the alteration of language and his reiterative intention to describe the “other reality”, that which allows us to hear the voice of human beings displaced and silenced by society and history. Likewise, in the act of reiterating, Adoum establishes a transtextual fabric in his work that allows us to trace connections between literary genres, different periods of the author’s writing and constant themes in his work. What is the function of writing throughout Adoum’s life? This text aims to give testimony of his life through imagined autobiographies that allow, in the other reality, the restitution of those absent from the unjust and fractured official reality.