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The reading is challenging, simply because he uses words I have never encountered before, but it is one of the most interesting and fulfilling books that leaves you with a desire to read more. I started the book yesterday, and i'm already half way done through it. It's an incredible story, and Icaza truly demonstrates his ingeniousness as a writer. Very grateful but disappointed at the same time that this is the only novel translated into english. To illustrate his literary art let me leave you with one of my favorite paragraphs so far:

"The man's command, like the thunder of Taita Dios to the children's fright, caused a fearful silence among them,and everything, absolutely everything, became clear in the scene that extended from the shade of the chaparral to the unevenness of the terrain that formed the gully. the distressful mummification of the first vital needs in a prison of coarse woolen swathing--an arabesque of vivid colors woven in the huasipungo. Si. The mummification necessary to stifle the tummy aches caused by the stale porridge and the cold potatoes, necessary to hold and hide the chafed skin of legs and buttocks, the reddened stench of a twenty-four hours' accumulation of urine and excrement."

This paragraph, when placed in it's context, paints a vivid picture of the way babies were mummified with vibrant-colored clothes so tightly that their fecal material and urine would accumulate for hours as their poor mothers would work in the fields.


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The Villagers Huasipungo Professor Jorge Icaza PhD Bernard Dulsey 9780809306534 Books Reviews

Huasipungo(the villagers) truly is one of the best novels to read if you want to understand the transformation South American society was going through at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, as a result of the invasion of the Spanish. The native indians became slaves of their own lands now controlled by the powerful criollos or peninsulares of Spain and their descendants. It is sad to think that if you travel to Ecuador today you will still see the unfair distribution of goods and land relevant to what is going on in the novel. Although definitely there have been strong changes in society, in general those of prominent white background are way better off than the indigenous or the mestizos. This novel is one of those novels that stand the test of time and feel as fresh as when it was written in the middle 1930s. Very entertaining reading, and at the same time, compelling and sad. Very highly recommended especially for students of latin american studies and history and worldly people in general.
This is still the best book to read about how the horrid hacienda system of Andean South America operated. Even though the novel was written in 1934, it still has great resonance today. If you want to understand the Rafael Correa's, Evo Morales' and Hugo Chavez' of our South American relatives, you only need read this book. It also helps explain why the Sendero Luminoso rebels of Peru found fertile ground at the start of their guerrilla movement of the 80's and 90's. It makes for great discussion in class and even though students hate to read the tragedy that it represents, they are riveted by the events of the book.
"The Villagers," a novel by Jorge Icaza of Ecuador, was first published in 1934. It has been translated into English by Bernard Dulsey. I think of "The Villagers" as a sort of Ecuadoran counterpart to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (the classic anti-slavery novel by United States author Harriet Beecher Stowe). Like that earlier novel, Icaza's book is an impassioned expose of racially-charged violence and oppression.
"The Villagers" tells the story of the exploitation of Ecuadoran Indians by whites who are intent on taking economic advantage of the Indians' homeland. Icaza paints a fascinating portrait of the conflicts and twisted connections among three major groups Indians, whites, and "cholos" (those of mixed blood). The "gringos," or white North Americans, form a sinister fourth group that lurks menacingly behind the scenes of the unfolding drama.
The novel is full of vivid, graphic details--lice infestation, a worm-infected wound, rape, suffering, and death. Icaza mercilessly satirizes the lust and greed of the white landowner, Don Alfonso. Icaza also savagely critiques the complicity of the church (in the form of the hypocritical village priest) in the abuse of the Indians. And the author also exposes the insidious debt bondage that turns nominally "free" people into virtual slaves.
Some of the more villainous characters seem a bit one-dimensional, but in my opinion the many strengths of the book outweigh this flaw. "The Villagers" is a powerful work of social protest that deserves a wide readership.
Quite dark but an important look at history of the area. Hopefully it has improved at least by some measure. The exploitation for oil drilling is
likely along the same lines. Have seen some of the mess they left in the in other explorations for oil. Not pretty.
It is my personally favorite book
The reading is challenging, simply because he uses words I have never encountered before, but it is one of the most interesting and fulfilling books that leaves you with a desire to read more. I started the book yesterday, and i'm already half way done through it. It's an incredible story, and Icaza truly demonstrates his ingeniousness as a writer. Very grateful but disappointed at the same time that this is the only novel translated into english. To illustrate his literary art let me leave you with one of my favorite paragraphs so far

"The man's command, like the thunder of Taita Dios to the children's fright, caused a fearful silence among them,and everything, absolutely everything, became clear in the scene that extended from the shade of the chaparral to the unevenness of the terrain that formed the gully. the distressful mummification of the first vital needs in a prison of coarse woolen swathing--an arabesque of vivid colors woven in the huasipungo. Si. The mummification necessary to stifle the tummy aches caused by the stale porridge and the cold potatoes, necessary to hold and hide the chafed skin of legs and buttocks, the reddened stench of a twenty-four hours' accumulation of urine and excrement."

This paragraph, when placed in it's context, paints a vivid picture of the way babies were mummified with vibrant-colored clothes so tightly that their fecal material and urine would accumulate for hours as their poor mothers would work in the fields.