The Diplomat
As part of its summer programme, the Centro Cultural Ecuatoriano (Calle del General Oráa, 64) offered last week a dramatised reading of the short story Angelote, amor mío, by the Ecuadorian writer Javier Vásconez, published in the work Ciudad Lejana.
The dramatised reading was performed by the Ecuadorian actor León Sierra, who will present the same work at the Madrid theatre C’Est la Vie, located in the Tirso de Molina neighbourhood, this August.
The story is considered a classic of Ecuadorian literature. It takes place at the wake of Jacinto, an upper-class homosexual man from a conservative Quiteño family, and is narrated in the form of an interior monologue by his lover Julián, who recalls the life of the deceased and criticises the hypocrisy of the society of the time. The work was published in 1982 and generated harsh criticism and great controversy in Ecuadorian society.
Among those attending the reading were the writer of the work, Javier Vásconez, Ambassador Andrés Vallejo, leaders of the Ecuadorian community and cultural personalities such as the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, who recently obtained Ecuadorian nationality at a ceremony in Madrid, presided over by President Guillermo Lasso.
