El viajero inquieto: los deberes de José Luis González.

Abstract

In 1971, after an absence of almost a quarter of century, José Luis González returns to Puerto Rico. A temporary permit issued by Immigration allowed him to attend the funeral rites of his father. In 1973 he comes back invited by the University of Puerto Rico to teach a course in Puerto Rican Literature. In the forthcoming years a relentless journey will permute territories and words, generating debates and controversies as much as new cultural memories for his homeland. This paper analyzes in his first short story "En la sombra", his first novel Balada de otro tiempo, and his first volume of essays, El país de cuatro pisos the manner in which the rhetoric of the journey organizes and relates other topics of his narrative: exile and the city.