The transformation of Antonio José Bolívar Proaño in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda, in six stages.
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الانزلاق: 1
Young Man from the Highlands
He marries Dolores very young in San Luis. Because they have no children, they suffer the village gossip and decide to emigrate to the Amazon.
الانزلاق: 2
The Settler
He arrives in El Idilio under a colonization plan, but the jungle refuses to be tamed. Dolores dies of malaria and he is left alone.
الانزلاق: 3
The Shuar's Apprentice
The Shuar teach him to survive: to hunt, to fish, and to respect the jungle. He becomes friends with Nushiño and lives as one of them, though he is still an outsider.
الانزلاق: 4
The Outcast
He avenges Nushiño's death without following the Shuar ritual and can no longer stay with them. He returns to El Idilio, which has grown and changed.
الانزلاق: 5
The Reader
He discovers he can read and finds in romance novels a refuge from loneliness.
الانزلاق: 6
The Reluctant Hunter
The mayor forces him to hunt the ocelot. He kills her, but he respects the animal and feels ashamed of what he did, and he goes back to his novels.