The Renunciation: A NovelPresented 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 Montanez provides a rich insight into issues of class and race in colonial Puerto Rico. |
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Alejandro Juliá Marín angelito Antonio Pérez attempted Baltasar's imprisonment beast beauty believe beloved flock beloved island blood body Charles III chronicle colonial compassion Creation cries cunnilingus daughter death desire destruction divine document don Baltasar Montañez don José Larra don Rafael don Tomás Prats drag drawing dream Excellency eyes father fear Felipe del Morro Fernández Costa fortress San Felipe frenzied Garden of Afflictions González Pimentel hero hero's heterodoxy Holy Inquisition Holy Tribunal honor human humble humiliation Indies Inquisition Juan Espinosa labyrinth letter lovely Luciferian Machiavellian madness magnificent Malumbi mankind marginalia marriage ment Negro masses night nuptials once orgies Palace passions peace peephole pleasure Prats's Puerto Rico race reason rebels renounce renunciation Rodríguez San Juan Bautista scene Secretary Sharks Point slave slavery Sor Inés soul subtle sugar cane sweet syphilis tañez terrible theological tion truth vision void wedding white lie words worthy young