El imaginario cuencano desde la brevedad: análisis hermenéutico de La noche maravillosa (2006) y Días de la vida (2022) de Jorge Dávila Vásquez

Abstract

In his literary career, the writer from Cuenca Jorge Dávila Vásquez has reflected the society and experiences of the region, the nation and the international through his short stories, especially through the concept of brevity. However, the evolution of the author's narrative style shows the need to investigate the particular brands of his micro-writings throughout the XXI century. For this reason, in the present investigation he analyzes the micro-storytellers: Días de la vida (2022) and La noche maravillosa (2006) produced as part of the imaginary of Cuenca and the Region during the last twenty years, issuing a thematic interpretation of the works from the dimensions of hermeneutics. The interpretation of particular signs and meanings of the Cuenca imaginary, found in the works, was carried out from categories such as: death, family, angels, places, music and the urban. These variables will be examined from the postulates issued by Manuel Villavicencio (2000), Garrido Domínguez (2005), Alicia Ortega (2017) and Carmen Rosa Álvarez Torres (2021).