Escribir en puertorriqueño: Obra selecta (Planeta 2024) is a compilation of the most outstanding work by Luis Rafael Sánchez, by one of our most beloved Puerto Rican authors. Edited by scholars Luce López-Baralt and Aníbal González-Pérez, this new publication includes selections of his best short stories, essays, and novels.

Description: An essential selection of the work of Luis Rafael Sánchez, the most internationally recognized contemporary Puerto Rican writer.

This “unruly anthology” by Luis Rafael Sánchez, a key figure in Latin American literature, goes through short stories, novels, journalistic chronicles and theater by professors Luce López-Baralt and Aníbal González-Pérez.

As they point out in their illuminating introduction, in addition to covering the artistic representation of the national reality of Puerto Rico, Luis Rafael Sánchez chooses to write “in Puerto Rican” when he sets out to translate the very complex nuts and bolts that make up national society, placing in the foreground the dispossessed, who introduce in his texts a “picaresque” mood between tragedy and comedy, elevating the popular idiolect of the marginalized to an artistic category.

In these texts, from stories like “Que sabe a paraíso,” novels like La guaracha del macho Camacho, essays like “La guagua aérea,” or a chronicle of raging topicality about Bad Bunny, the reader will find plenty of reasons to enjoy [this book].

Planeta de Libros writes:

Luis Rafael Sánchez is the most recognized Puerto Rican writer of our time. He is an outstanding writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Born and raised in Humacao, in eastern Puerto Rico, he began his artistic career as an actor while he studied and worked in radio. Upon graduating, he wrote internationally recognized works, such as La guaracha del macho Camacho, La pasión según Antígona Pérez, Quíntuples, and En cuerpo de camisa, among others. 

Book description translated by Ivette Romero. For the original article (in Spanish) and purchasing information, see https://www.planetadelibros.us/libro-escribir-en-puertorriqueno/394174 and https://libros787.com/collections/nuevos-lanzamientos/products/escribir-en-puertorriqueno