Laguerre is considered one of the master authors of Puerto Rican literature. Some of his works are required reading in Puerto Rican schools. At one point, there was even a campaign to advocate for him receiving the Nobel in Literature. I read the book in graduate school for a Spanish American lit. class. I was writing a paper exploring the mythological elements in the novel. The book follows the life of Porfirio Uribe, a man in New York who just completed his law degree and gets accused of murder just for being a witness and a Puerto Rican. He is eventually cleared of the charge. During the novel, the urban setting is represented as a labyrinth, which was the symbol I was exploring for my essay. Uribe travels on to the Dominican Republic, getting involved with the dictatorship. From there, he has to choose whether to join a conspiracy against the dictator or not. I just give it two stars since it is not the type of book I usually read, but it is a good example of Puerto Rican literature.
