He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer, radio speaker, and journalist for 26 years.
His books are typically gritty, tragicomic accounts of himself and his countrymen hustling for money, searching for pleasure and happiness, and struggling in desperate situations.
Its first two parts, "Anclado en la tierra de nadie" ("Anchored in No-man's Land") and "Nada que hacer" ("Nothing to Do"), follow the picaresque adventures of a protagonist, who, like the author, is a one-time journalist called Pedro Juan.
This theory was accepted and disseminated through a Doctoral thesis for the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and arousing interest from international scientific journals such as Cultura Latinoamericana.
was held at the Faculty of Letters of the Universidad Complutense en Madrid during which Gino Tramontana interviewed Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, pursuing the thesis that sees the Cuban author as completely distant from the literary movement defined as dirty realism.