![]() ![]() The time had come to encourage and exhort his people to confront and declare their unwillingness to continue to be submitted to such iniquity. ![]() Atavistic wisdom had taught him that one must oppose and combat despotism. ![]() Through the suffering he is forced to endure, he, as a heroic figure, realizes that the patch of land that he has always labored is land that belongs to them, to all who had labored it and improved it. The novel's two revisions enabled Icaza to develop the main character, Andr s Chiliquinga, as a profoundly human and rational being. The oligarchy of his country had throughout its history degraded them, violated any human right they were entitle to, took away anything of value that they possessed in essence they considered the Indian population as entities that could be used and be disposed of at will. In it he proclaimed to the world the injustices to which the powerful landowners in an unholy alliance with the clergy held subjected the large indigenous population of Ecuador. Among Ecuadorian writers, Icaza is perhaps the most renowned internationally due in great part to the publication of this novel in 1934. ![]() This Huaisipungo edition is based on the author's definitive revision that was published in 1960. ![]()
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