Roque Dalton

Roque Dalton is one of the most brilliant writers that El Salvador has produced. His revolutionary ideas led him to join the guerrillas, but accused of treason, he died at the hands of his comrades. The last unpublished correspondence of the poet with his ex-wife and his mother is the definitive testimony of the fighting poet who made the revolution the axis of his life. With a detective and passionate look, Castellanos Moya unravels the literary figure of Dalton and brings new light to the tragic circumstances that, still wrapped in questions, preceded his death. This essay is accompanied by a series of speeches, conferences and articles in which the author outlines a political self-portrait -marked by an uncertain Salvadoran identity and a life divided between the left and a conservative family heritage- as well as a literary one: the vital impulse of his writing, an inevitable feeling of literary orphanhood and the link between Latin American fiction and violence. Magnificent pieces that complete the work of an author who comes from a country "where fear and tragedy have long been daily life".