La generación que tomó las calles [The Generation that Took the Streets] by Manuel de J. González, was revealed this yr by Mariana Editores. Here’s a fragment from the prologue by Guillermo Rebollo Gil.
La generación que tomó las calles by Manuel de J. González is a type of guide for being younger, for in search of hassle —in accordance with Roque Dalton— and for studying to develop outdated with dignity. The reference to the Nicaraguan poet is neither unintentional neither is it a whim. In spite of everything, the eight essays gathered within the quantity inform the story of how a younger man from Moca, who arrived on the college metropolis of Río Piedras at age of 16 in 1963, went to a political riot and was later persecuted in a federal case for defending the general public college from the ROTC, took a bullet for defending the operation of a newspaper, and featured in a six-volume police file for daring to stay as much as his political rules.
The story, after all, is rather more advanced, convulsive, and fascinating than this condensed abstract [. . .]. Luckily for us, the creator is aware of how one can inform it —in an agile, biting, and ironic prose—conscious that doing so sheds mild on elements of the battle for the independence of Puerto Rico which are nonetheless unknown, or which have been misunderstood, or that we nonetheless don’t totally perceive. Manuel, by the way in which, met Dalton, however I depart that anecdote to him in order that he can inform it in these pages. For now, I’m content material to launch from the outset, and abruptly, this peek into the internal world of that era of younger individuals who took to the streets within the 60s and 70s to battle for the liberty of our nation.
Manuel writes: “In the midst of the evening we left the campus in teams and dispersed in direction of our properties, with out discovering policemen on the way in which. My household, from Madrid Avenue, which was positioned close to the college grounds, should have heard the photographs pondering that the youngest of their kids can be struck down by them. Their apprehension throughout that lengthy evening was horrible, however I don’t suppose that, at that second, within the euphoria of the “battle,” I might cease to consider that different aspect of the problem. I went to sleep with the calmness of the soldier who returns from the ditch, with out taking a look at my environment.”
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