Crítica y memoria en Fuga hacia dentro. La novela ecuatoriana en el siglo xx, de Alicia Ortega Caicedo

Abstract

In this text the critical work of Alicia Ortega, exposed in her book Fuga hacia dentro. La novela ecuatoriana en el siglo XX. For this, it is proposed that
Ortega carries out an intense immersion, both in the existing literary criticism and in the opinions of the writers of each period analyzed. Th is immersion implies the recognition of the critical memory of Ecuador and the opening towards a dialogue, understood in Bajtinian terms, such as the opening towards debate. Likewise, Ortega’s proposal breaks with the myth of “critical orphanhood” and strengthens the idea that without tradition we can’t understand any culturally determined discourse.