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Presented as a series of lectures interspersed with letters and other documents, this historical novel by one of Puerto Rico's most acclaimed contemporary novelists chronicles a pre-arranged marriage plotted to pacify the slave population and to save Puerto Rico from a rebellion. Intense and masterfully structured, the story of the eighteenth-century hero Baltasar Montañez also provides a rich insight into issues of class and race in colonial Puerto Rico.
"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.
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Johnn Jack
reviewed The renunciation on December 13, 2009
The renunciation
The description of this book was far from being the actual case in my opinion. i thought this book was terribly boring. the cover says it is a novel, but it is structured as if it was the transcript of a really boring lecture. where was the story? when i first started reading it, i thought the lecture was just giving a background to the story and then the next chapter would be more in the form of a story, the story of the marriage. but that was not the case. where was the excitement? did i miss something?
i should note that i could only get through about half of the book before i gave up. i snuck ahead to see if a story structure was developing, but no.
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