Humberto Salvador: biografía armable y desarmable de un «proscrito interior»

Abstract

The author pieces together various testimonials that offer a picture of the man behind the writer. Humberto Salvador was extremely timid and, indeed, this allowed him to become the truest chronicler and witness of his age. He endured the scrutiny of bourgeois Christian morality inasmuch as he was illegitimate; a social advocate of the emerging Ecuadorian middle class, he worked as a teacher, cultural promoter and psychoanalyst. Still, Salvador’s greatest passion was literature; more than recognition for his works, he sought partners in this exercise, renewing himself in the cultivation of multiple poetics. An attentive and willing reader, he looked to involve himself in the events of his time, the social critique in his works responds to an inextinguishable will to help society and his interest in psychoanalysis, a desire to reconcile himself with his own reality and carry on his reflections on the human condition. Finally, it looks at Salvador’s literary influences, closing with a complex,  completely human, picture of the a-vangardist from Guayaquil.