Nomadismo y exilio en la obra El Desterrado de Leonardo Valencia

Abstract

This work develops a critical analysis of the exile and nomadism of the book El Desterrado (2000) by the Ecuadorian writer Leonardo Valencia (1969). It consists of three chapters: the first one develops the birth of the travel literature, of the exile, the uprooting, and the nomadism in universal, Latin American and Ecuadorian literature. Writers that developed their novels in these environments will be the conceptual and referential framework. In the second chapter we will place Valencia and his work in the map of travel literature, also we will approach conceptual categories that are necessary to fully understand the notion of voyage, uprooting, exile and nomadism inside the mind of the stateless writer. In the last chapter we will proceed to analyze the book El Desterrado, the travels that its characters perform and the role that the storytellers have in the tales.