Puerto Plata, 1901 A member of a family of brilliant artists formed by his brothers Silvestre (musician) and Fermin (painter), and his sister Rosaura (actress). He worked as movie script arranger and political activist. In 1928, he joined the Mexican Communist Party until he was expelled from it in 1943. His discrepancies with the Communist Party are extensively dealt with in several novels and his play entitled The Square of Solitude. He did time in jail several times due to his ideals and gave credit of those times in his works Water Walls (1941) –in which he retells his stay on the Marias Islands- and The Pilferer (1969) where he recounts the time he served in the penitentiary after the Tlatelolco events in which he took part.His novel Human Mourning (1943) uses innovative stylistic resources that anticipate philosophical an formal problems that would later be splayed in the pages of The Maze of Loneliness, written by Octavio Paz, and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo.