Since 1931, the year of its publication, Las olas has been considered one of the capital works of the 20th century, both for the original beauty of its prose and for the perfection of its revolutionary narrative technique, and over the years its influence on the contemporary literature has been increasing. The novel develops, to the rhythm of the beating of the waves on the beach, six internal monologues, sometimes discrepant, isolated, other times almost in a concordant colloquy, in which, from his childhood to his last years, six multiple lives and disparate.