Novel
La carga
Not translated into English
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel · 1999
Synopsis
The novel takes place on the mainland part of Equatorial Guinea, in the time of the Spanish colony, and goes back over that past to shed light on the political and economic situation of the independent country. According to Elisa Rizo's study, it alternates two periods of the town of San Benito, today Mbini: colonial times, with Lieutenant Navarro, the African women Rambé and Utondi and the Spanish woman Ana Villamar, and the last years of the twentieth century.
Context
Published in 1999 by Palmart, in Valencia, this book is regarded as the author's first novel; he had previously published poems and, in 1998, a short narrative of manners set in Malabo. Elisa Rizo studied it in 2004 as a postcolonial historiographic novel, which calls into question the nation-state model adopted at independence, in 1968; A. B. Brus's thesis, defended in Leiden in 2021, returns to it. Donato Ndongo counted the author among the most promising of the new generation.
Who it is for
For reading an Equatoguinean novel in Spanish on colonial memory; it is not translated, but other books by the author exist in French.
Prizes and reception
Studied in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, it is cited by scholarly work on the Spanish-language Equatoguinean novel.
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