La vispera del hombre
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Through the eyes of Pirulo, a boy who has run away from his house to work independently, we see a string of tragic events unfold in a Puerto Rican plantation (Carrizal) during the early twentieth century. Partly an ideological tale, dealing with the inherently colonial mindset of Puerto Rico (and thus the perennial theme of Puerto Rican pride against the Northamerican influence), partly a violent and heartrending family saga, and partly a coming-of-age tale, this novel still reverberates in today's urban Puerto Rico, where the rural pastures depicted in this novel (with Rene Marques's stunning prose) have largely been forgotten.
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