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Cuentos Completos / The Complete Short Stories
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9786073931656
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: Spanish
En 1976 apareció La guaracha del Macho Camacho, que consagró a Luis Rafael Sánchez como una de las figuras clave en las letras latinoamericanas. Para entender un texto tan innovador el lector tiene que volver a los cuentos de En cuerpo de camisa (1966) y a otros relatos anteriores en los que se halla el germen de los malabarismos verbales que caracterizan la obra de madurez del autor, asà como su preocupación por desentrañar los problemas sociales de su paÃs desde la cultura popular urbana.
En cuentos ya clásicos como Aleluya negra , Que sabe a paraÃso o Espuelas el autor explora la discriminación racial o la identidad puertorriqueña, el vacÃo existencial y la frustración de la clase media, la sexualidad festiva o la crÃtica feroz al sistema burocrático a través de un lenguaje que desarrolla lo que el propio autor definió como una poética de lo soez .
Imposible entender a Roma sin Virgilio, a Italia sin Dante, a España sin Cervantes, a Argentina sin Borges. Igualmente es imposible entender al Puerto Rico contemporáneo sin Luis Rafael Sánchez. Las culturas constituidas siempre descansan sobre los hombros de sus grandes artistas . --Luce López-Baralt y AnÃbal González
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In 1976, La guaracha del Macho Camacho was published, establishing Luis Rafael Sánchez as a key figure in Latin American literature. To fully grasp such an innovative text, readers must return to the stories from En cuerpo de camisa (1966) and other earlier works, where the seeds of the verbal acrobatics that define the author's mature writing can be found, along with his concern for unraveling his country's social issues through urban popular culture.
In now-classic stories such as Aleluya negra, Que sabe a paraÃso, and Espuelas, the author explores racial discrimination and Puerto Rican identity, existential emptiness and middle-class frustration, festive sexuality, and fierce criticism of the bureaucratic system--through a language shaped by what the author himself called a poetics of the profane.
It's impossible to understand Rome without Virgil, Italy without Dante, Spain without Cervantes, Argentina without Borges. Likewise, it is impossible to understand contemporary Puerto Rico without Luis Rafael Sánchez. Established cultures always rest on the shoulders of their great artists. --Luce López-Baralt and AnÃbal González
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