Una visión familiar de Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

Abstract

The writer Miguel Donoso Pareja confesses that two models existed in his life: that of his father- even as he recognized that he was not capable of emulating the sailor and the mathematician-, and that of his uncle Alfredo Pareja. He admires the writer as well as the human being: 10r his permanent desire to leam and the implacable demands he made on himself, more so his vitality. He remembers the family visits, each week, of his uncle to the Península 01 Santa Elena; he approved, in silence, the juvenile lectures of Donoso, and imposed certain standards ín Las mil noches y una noche. The author got to know a different Alfredo Pareja when as a student he used to visit his maternal grandmother's house in Guayaquil: the busy daily routine 01 a writer and businessman; he used to visit his house, fascinated by his immense library to which he had free access. A little later his uncle Alfredo would begin his long years as a traveler and they would reencounter each other a few times in Quito during the 1980's. The author concludes the emotíonal review with a short synthesis and assessment of Pareja Diezcanseco's output.