Marcelo Chiriboga or the filmic rewriting of literary tradition

Abstract

From Latin American fiction literature comes the figure of Marcelo Chiriboga, an Ecuadorian member of the well-known literary boom. This character grows in the voices of authors such as Donoso, Fuentes, Cornejo, among others, and today, filmmaker Javier Izquierdo has recovered the character and has given him a face in an attempt to build a metaphor of the search for collective identity or the impossibility of achieving that identity.