César Dávila Andrade: the surprising ambivalence of his gaze. Narrate the incorporeal, the terrifying human intimacy and the everlasting tenderness

Abstract

This writing is a testimony of reading, a return to the Fakir, a tribute to César Dávila Andrade in the celebration of the centenary of his birth. The author re-reads some of his stories,non-fictional prose writings, letters, novels and sketches that some of his contemporaries wrote about him or converted, years later, into a novel character. What interests me is to understand how he himself looked, he looked at others and was looked at, because it is on the writer’s gaze that this seeks to reflect.