Juan Bosch

A detailed Summary of Juan Bosch

It all started on July 30th, 1909 when Juan Bosch was born to a Catalan father and a Puerto Rican mother. Juan Bosch was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic where most of the income came from farming. Due to Bosch's surrounding he grew up close to peasants and landowners, even though his father owned a small business in La Vega, Dominican Republic. While many thought that he would follow in his fathers footsteps he decided to become a writer, novelist, essayist, political leader, and a former president of the Dominican Republic(Olmmos 4). All those experiences he lived as a child in the small town of La Vega, played a fundamental role in his political and creative development, as the Dominican campesino. Juan Bosch became one of the most respected short-story writers of Latin American, such a respected author that he has even influenced authors within and beyond the borders of his own country(Olmos 4). "As a young man Bosch participated in literary groups such as La Cueva in Santo Domingo, and in 1929 several of his stories were published in the newspaper Listin Diario and the Journal Bahoruco in the Dominican Republic. In 1933 his first collection of stories, Camino real received critical acclaim. It was followed by ano

Bosch, Juan. Cuentos: Casa de las America. El Vedado, Cuidad de la Havana.

"In 1937 Bosch decided to relocate with his wife and children to Puerto Rico to begin an exile that lasted twenty-four years. In 1939 he decided Puerto Rico was not the place for him so he relocated to Havana, Cuba where he worked in radio and journalism, during his residency in Cuba Juan Bosch founded the Revolutionary party and worked with other exiled intellectual to topple their country's dictatorial regime-without success. Bosch also published the biography Hostos, the Sower in 1939, the short-story collections Two Pesos of Water in 1941, and Eight Stories in 1947 which included "Luis Pie", while his stay in Cuba. In 1952, after Fulgencio Batista's successful coup in Cuba, Bosch left Havana, Cuba for Costa Rica, where he taught at and later directed the Institute of Political Education in San Jose. Juan Bosch relocated to Costa Rica, where he became a professor at the Institute of Political Science. But his stay in Costa Rica was not permanent because, during the 1950 Bosch did a lot of traveling throughout Europe and Latin America, Bosch also found time to write Cuba: The Fascinating Island, Judas Iscariote: El calumniado, La Muchacha de la Guaira, and Cuento de Navidad and finally returning to Cuba in 1958 only to be incarcerated by the dictatorship. When he was released Bosch decided to travel to Venezuela, were his close friend Romulo Betancourt was president. Finally, in May 1961 Bosch was allowed back to his native country because Trujillo was assassinated. Two years after Bosch's return from exile to the Dominican republic in 1961, he was elected president, only to toppled seven months later in a military coup and forced to leave the country( Olmos 9-10)."

Not only does he show us how the native people of Dominican Republic live but he also gives us a good vision of how the Haitian suffer, with one of his stories called Luis Pie. In this story the Haitian had moved to the Dominican Republic to look for a job to support his three children because jobs in Haiti were worse and less paid. This story begins with Luis Pie and he is describing how he had stepped on a rusty metal stick while working on a sugar plantation. He explains to us how he was trying to get home but the fever and the aches were slowing him down, until a point he could not walk and had to try to crawl his way to the road. After hours of crawling he heard a Ford truck pass by who was own by one of the plantation owners. Luis sees when he throws a match into the plantation but the match did not turn off, instead it started creating a fire. Luis started to crawl faster only thinking that if he does not make it home nobody would feed his three children. After a while he hears some people coming so he starts screaming for help, when they finally find him they blame him for the fire since he was carrying a box of matches with him, but he could not explain because he did not know the language. At the end they decided to kill him for being a trader, but the one given the job of killing him forgives him, because he sees the pain Luis Pie is going threw.

Cuentos: Casa de las Americas, was the collection of short-stories written by Juan Bosch that I choose to read for this assignment. At first I was afraid that I was not going to like it because it was in Spanish and I had never read any of his work before, but I decided to give it a chance. The first night I checked out the book from the library, I put it on my night table to remember to read at night, when I got home I turned on the television but nothing was on so I decided to pick up the book. As I opened it and turned the pages I was

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