Roque Dalton's work interested Dr. James Iffland so much that he decided to dedicate twenty five years to studying and researching it. In this magnum opus he reveals to us Dalton's vigorous poetics, one of the best of all time, his development of the testimonio genre (Miguel Mâarmol), his novel (Tender Poet that was I...), his literary and political essays (Câesar Vallejo, and Revolution within the Revolution? and the Critique of the Right) and incisively analyzes his theatrical work as well as his theories about revolution. The author studies these facets of the man of letters and thinker Roque Dalton thoroughly, with the meticulous observation of a detective or the precision of a watchmaker, through the critical eyes of an expert in universal figures like Quevedo and Cervantes, and, in this case, Dalton"--