The narrative world of Juan Aburto

between nostalgia and the critique of urban dehumanization

Abstract

As creator, Juan Aburto (1918) belatedly entered Nicaraguan literature. Already he had doubled the fifty-year curve when he published his first storybook, but since before publishing he was already a literary mentor of some of the young prospects of the decade of the sixties, and in its first narrative texts the beginner's hesitation is absent. He started writing late, but with the firmness, security and strength of the mature narrator, connoisseur of the difficult profession of prosar in a literary medium tied from a century ago to the myth That we are a country of poets. He entered Nicaraguan literature, in addition, not as a narrator more, tributary of veins already exhausted, but as an explorer of new roads in the incipient Nicaraguan narrative of the sixties.