Luisa Valenzuela

Luisa Valenzuela is disturbed when she hears Americans call her fiction surrealist. She says that Latin American writers think of reality in a wide sense and they explore the shadow side of literature. When Valenzuela was young she thought that politics should not be included or anywhere near her writings but now she sees it differently. The only way to deal with politics in literature is to avoid the message at all costs. Juan works in el Departamento de Censura del Ministerio de Comunicaciones because he wants to intercept the letter that he wrote to Mariana. Juan starts out the story with wanting the job just so he could get pass along the letter to Mariana which would not be able to go through without him. As Juan works up the line at his job he starts changing in the job is more important than anything else and he is there for the job only. When he finally sees his letter from Mariana he throws it out because of his devotion to his work. I think this story is a critic of the communism society. Where a single authoritarian party is controlling the means of production. The censors are following these rules that the government made in notion that the government knows everything that is coming in and going out of the country.