Who is Hernán

The protagonist of "The Auroras," Hernán arrives in the story's port city having left behind a literature professorship at the university in the capital city, his wife Adri, and her son Aurelio, to whom Hernán was a devoted stepfather. As a professor, Hernán is particularly interested in modernist poetry and narratives of being at sea. Almost as soon as he arrives, he moves in with a local woman named Clarisa. They sleep together, and over the course of the story he also sleeps with several of her friends. He briefly works busing tables in a local restaurant, although Clarisa soon cajoles him into dramatically quitting. Hernán realizes at the end of the story that Clarisa has been charging her friends for his sexual services.