José Rumazo González

Biography:

José Rumazo González is an Ecuadorian writer philosopher and historian. He is the author of the celebrated poem Parusia an epic poem that he began writing in 1956 and consists of 5600 pages in 7 volumes; it contains close to 240000 verses which makes it one of the longest epic poems in human history; it is longer than the Mahabharata by Vyasa the Ramayana by Valmiki the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer and the Aeneid by Virgil. He served as consul in Seville Cadiz Lisbon and Barcelona and he was ambassador in Honduras Argentina Uruguay y Panama.