Baltasar Montaänez, an eighteenth-century Puerto Rican, the son of a slave leader, renounces his own people and marries the daughter of the secretary of state, in a government deal to ease tension between the ruling and slave classes.

Product Description: Por vez primera se recopilan los ensayos literarios de Rodríguez Juliá en un volumen que nos abre las puertas a sus reflexiones y confesiones como escritor y como lector. Sus comentarios, muchos de los cuales han sido publicados en el periódico El Nuevo Día, forman el mapa fascinante de su imaginación, tanto en sus testimonios de "admiración" como "Ese Los Angeles de Raymond Chandler" y "Borges, Nabokov, siempre Cervantes" como en sus comentarios dedicados a novelistas puertorriqueños contemporáneos...read more

'Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del hâeroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Baltasar Montanez, an eighteenth-century Puerto Rican hero and the son of a slave leader, renounces his own people and marries the daughter of the secretary of state, in a deal created by the government to ease tension between the ruling and slave classes