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Abstract

This paper approaches a reading and understanding of present Puerto Rican literary field, through the relationship between young authors and their literary models, especially by means of the link, as an example, between Juan Carlos Quiñones and Luis Rafael Sánchez. The concept of influence according to Harold Bloom becomes intricate in terms of reading and writing, since young people separate themselves from programmatic commands around ambivalent Puerto Rican national identity, though, in turn, they acknowledge filial gestures of closeness to their elders.