The Futile Life of Pito Perez (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: JoséRubén Romero
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1930’s
- Setting: Michoacan and Morelia, two provinces in western Mexico
- Principal Characters: Pito Perez, Caneca, Irene, Chucha, Soledad, Father Pureco, José de Jesús Jiménez, José Vásquez, The unnamed narrator
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Alienation, 1920’s, 1930’s, Mental illness, Storytelling, Mexico or Mexicans, Skeleton
- Locales: Michoacan, Mexico, Morelia, Mexico
The Novel
José Rubén Romero’s purpose in writing The Futile Life of Pito Perez was to observe, judge, and criticize Mexican society of the 1920’s and 1930’s, and he realized this goal by casting his story in the form of a picaresque novel, of which a primary characteristic is that the narrative is told in the first-person voice. Appropriately, this novel comprises a series of anecdotes in which Pito tells the unnamed narrator of the various escapades he unwittingly suffers from childhood until the day of his death. Given this structure, the reader is advised to...
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