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Considerado el fundador de la novela puertorriqueña, Manuel Zeno Gandía (Puerto Rico, 1855-1930) es uno de los escritores más destacados de la tendencia naturalista. Su obra más conocida es La charca (1894), que muestra la pobreza, el vicio y el dolor. Otra de sus novelas es Redentores. Zeno también...

Considered the author's most important work, Mozart ensayando su requiem dosn't fit in the literary canon of 19th century Cuba. Still, it is one of the great works of Latin American literature.

José Quiroga, uno de los miembros mas ilustrados de la Compañía de Jesús, nació en 1707 en Fabás, pequeña aldea de la jurisdicción de la Coruña, en Galicia. La proximidad de este puerto, y la continua conmemoración que se hacía en su familia de los viajes de un deudo que frecuentaba las...

While religious travel writings caused a stir in much of Europe, especially in Spain in the 19th century, this story covers the author's travels throughout the world. It includes stops in Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, and Turkey.

El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes is an extensive itinerary that goes from Montevideo to Lima to Buenos Aires, with stops inCórdoba, Salta, Potosí, Chuquisaca, and Cuzco. The work offers a very specific and accurate picture of American life during colonial times. The author narrates precisely the...

This volume is an anthology of the many traditions of Lima. Palma pays tribute to the nation's colonial past with his stories of ghosts, immoral viceroys, daring women, saints, and rogues. His work earned him much criticism in his time. This edition includes an introduction of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

The modernist movement arrived late in Venezuela. Modernism is thought to be a result of the crisis caused by excesses of Romanticism and the desire of a new generation to break free of the ways of the past. 1910's Camino de perfección states clearly and with style, the credo of the modernist movement:...

Ricardo Palma published Tradiciones in 1860, though Tradiciones en salsa verde was never meant to be published at all. The handwritten manuscript was placed in the hands of a trusted friend, as the author feared if the wrong people saw it they would punish him, not for evil deeds, but for crude words.

La primera parte de los Comentarios reales fue publicada en 1609, en Lisboa. Escritos a partir de los recuerdos del Inca Garcilaso y de sus vivencias en el Cuzco, el libro pretende preservar la memoria histórica de las tradiciones de la civilización andina en el territorio del Perú.