Question

What is the summary of the short story the censors by luisa valenzuela?

Answer 1

The Censors" follows a yoiung adult male, Juan, in a tragic and ironic quest to send a letter to a girl he met in Paris.  He writes her a letter, and sends it. However, he knows the government censors anything and everything they can; newspapers, art, and most importantly to Juan, letters. He knows that if his letter has a shot at getting to his beloved Mariana, he has to take aciton. As such, he joins the Censorship Division of his local post office. He progresses quickly, and becomes obsessed with his job. He reaches so high as to get to Section B, one of the highest and hardest hurdles for letters to pass over. And soon after being promoted to this prestigious position, he realizes his goal: he is delivered the very letter he wrote to Mariana. And he lets it pass, just as he had planned to. The next day he is executed by the very government for which he was serving.