Los soles truncos

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Los soles truncos is a play by Puerto Rican nationalist writer René Marqués. The title translates to "Maimed Suns".1

The play is set in the closed environment of three patrician sisters who struggle to adapt to modernization. Marqués's work often explores themes of national identity and the dangers of abandoning traditional values for foreign ones, which he believed led to alienation.1

Los soles truncos is one of Marqués's most successful plays and is included in his 1959 collection Teatro.1

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René Marqués
…Child for That Shadow”); and Los soles truncos (“Maimed Suns”). In Los soles truncos, one of his most successful plays, Marqués re-creates the closed environment and lives of three patrician sisters unable to cope with the onslaught of modernization. In most of his plays, Marqués advocates the development of a…
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…Child for That Shadow”); and Los soles truncos (“Maimed Suns”). In Los soles truncos, one of his most successful plays, Marqués re-creates the closed environment and lives of three patrician sisters unable to cope with the onslaught of modernization. In most of his plays, Marqués advocates the development of a…
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