Question

The narrator calls Juan's basket of letters "the best fed as well as the most cunning basket in the whole Censorship Division." What does this statement reveal about the way Juan performs his job?

Book: The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela

Answer 1

The narrator compares Juan with the basket of his letters. They are the reflection of his work. He is fully devoted to it, but at first, he was against censorship and tried to work around it and he does it in a cunning way. He ends up liking it to the point of being obsessed.