Novel
Los Sangurimas
Not translated into English
José de la Cuadra · 1934
Synopsis
At La Hondura, an estate on the Ecuadorian coast, old Nicasio Sangurima reigns, a still-robust montuvio who is said to owe his land, his fortune and his women to a pact with the devil; he claims to be the son of a murdered gringo, whom his mother avenged. Around him, three generations live by his law and settle scores with the machete, while some of his sons, a priest, a lawyer, a colonel, already move among the Church, the courts and the army of a world that is no longer his.
Context
The novel was published in Madrid in 1934, by Cenit, with five short stories, under the subtitle of Ecuadorian montuvio novel. It opens with a theory of the matapalo, the tree whose old trunk bears generations of branches, and is divided into three parts, from the trunk to the leaves, before an epilogue. It was reissued in Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and Spain, adapted as a series by the channel Ecuavisa under the direction of Carl West, and brought to the stage.
Who it is for
A short novel, in Spanish, with no French or English translation; the story advances by episodes and reported legends.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as its author's major work; Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco said of him that he was the greatest of the five writers of his generation in Guayaquil.
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