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  • NovelMisterioManuel Argüello Mora · 1888not translated into EnglishRomantic intrigues in the drawing rooms of San José's high society, at the end of the nineteenth century.Literature
  • NovelEl MotoJoaquín García Monge · 1900not translated into EnglishA poor peasant in love with the notable's daughter, in a town in the Costa Rican countryside around 1900.Literature
  • Short storiesTerracotas, cuentos brevesRafael Ángel Troyo · 1900not translated into EnglishBrief short stories of modernist inspiration, turned towards the European bohemia rather than towards the country's countryside.Literature
  • PoetryConcheríasAquileo Echeverría · 1905not translated into EnglishThe Costa Rican countryside of the early twentieth century, set into poems in the language of its peasants.LiteraturePublic domain
  • NarrativeLa propiaManuel González Zeledón (Magón) · 1909not translated into EnglishA notable of the coffee-growing countryside loses all sense of measure over a young girl, around 1900.Literature
  • TaleCuentos de mi tía PanchitaCarmen Lyra · 1920not translated into EnglishWonder tales and the tricks of tío Conejo, rewritten for children in everyday language.Literature
  • NovelLa caída del águilaCarlos Gagini · 1920not translated into EnglishA political anticipation novel from 1920 in which an alliance of Latin Americans and Japanese defies the power of the United States.LiteraturePublic domain
  • TaleCuentos viejosMaría Leal de Noguera · 1923not translated into EnglishTales collected by a schoolteacher from the peasants of Guanacaste, between marvels from afar and the tricks of Uncle Rabbit.Literature
  • Feature filmEl retornoA. F. Bertoni · 1930A student torn between the coffee-growing countryside and the capital, in the Costa Rica of 1930.Cinema
  • NovelEl domador de pulgasMax Jiménez · 1936not translated into EnglishA satirical fable in which a world of fleas fed on the blood of its creator reproduces the vices of men.LiteraturePublic domain
  • NovelMamita YunaiCarlos Luis Fallas · 1941not translated into EnglishAn electoral mission in the heart of the banana zone on the Atlantic coast, under the sway of an American company.Literature
  • NovelPedro ArnáezJosé Marín Cañas · 1942not translated into EnglishA peasant caught up in the uprising and the repression of 1932 in El Salvador.Literature
  • NovelCocoríJoaquín Gutiérrez · 1947not translated into EnglishA little boy from the Caribbean coast tries to understand why beautiful things pass so quickly.Literature
  • Short storiesCosta Rican Short Stories of Anguish and LandscapesCuentos de angustias y paisajesCarlos Salazar Herrera · 1947Short dramas of the Costa Rican countryside, written and engraved by the same artist.Literature
  • NovelLa ruta de su evasiónYolanda Oreamuno · 1949not translated into EnglishA tyrannical father, a dying mother and three lost sons: Yolanda Oreamuno's great psychological novel.Literature
  • NovelEl sitio de las abrasFabián Dobles · 1950not translated into EnglishThe struggle of the small settlers of the mountains against a large estate, from the 1870s into the twentieth century.Literature
  • Short filmElviraAlfonso Patiño Gómez · 1955An educated servant and his employers' daughter, in San José in the middle of the twentieth century.Cinema
  • NarrativeEl poeta, el niño y el ríoJosé León Sánchez · 1963not translated into EnglishA childhood narrative written in prison by a man sentenced to life, who had just learned to write there.Literature
  • NovelMemorias de un pobre diabloHernán Elizondo Arce · 1964not translated into EnglishA rural province of Costa Rica, seen by a disillusioned narrator in the sixties.Literature
  • NovelLos perros no ladraronCarmen Naranjo · 1966not translated into EnglishThe life of a minor civil servant in San José, crushed by the indifference of the office and the city, in the sixties.Literature
  • PoetryNosotros los hombresJorge Debravo · 1966not translated into EnglishPoems of brotherhood and revolt by a peasant poet from Turrialba who died at twenty-nine.Literature
  • NovelLos juegos furtivosAlfonso Chase · 1968not translated into EnglishA young man alone in the city, between memories, forbidden desires and a search for himself, at the end of the sixties.Literature
  • NovelNoche en velaRima de Vallbona · 1968not translated into EnglishA night of funeral vigil in which a young woman settles scores with the aunt who tyrannised her childhood: Rima de Vallbona's first novel.Literature
  • NovelLa estación que sigue al veranoJulieta Pinto · 1969not translated into EnglishA novelist who came to fiction from philology paints a portrait of a Costa Rican bourgeoisie emptied of its values, at the end of the sixties.Literature
  • NovelLos cuatro espejosQuince Duncan · 1973not translated into EnglishA Black man from Limón, married into the white high society of San José, loses his reflection and sets out to find who he is.Literature
  • NovelLos pantanos del infiernoLeón Pacheco Solano · 1974not translated into EnglishA labour dispute on the banana plantations of the thirties, in the only published novel of a Costa Rican essayist.Literature
  • PoetryAutumn's LegacyHerencia del otoñoLaureano Albán · 1980A Costa Rican poet discovers autumn in Spain and makes it the symbol of a meditation on being, nature and time.Literature
  • NovelLa guerra prodigiosaRafael Ángel Herra · 1986not translated into EnglishA Costa Rican philosopher turns the war between a saint and the devil into a baroque fable about good and evil.Literature
  • NovelAssault on ParadiseAsalto al paraísoTatiana Lobo · 1992A fugitive from the Inquisition in colonial Costa Rica, witness to an indigenous revolt: Tatiana Lobo's best-known novel.Literature
  • NovelCruz de olvidoCarlos Cortés · 1999not translated into EnglishA former fighter of the Nicaraguan revolution seeks the truth about his son's fate: Carlos Cortés's novel.Literature