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Manuel Ramos Otero (July 20, 1948 – October 7, 1990) was a Puerto Rican writer.He is widely considered to be the most important openly gay twentieth-century Puerto Rican writer who wrote in Spanish, and his work was often controversial due to its sexual and political content. [1]
Palés Matos was devastated and expressed his grief in the poem "El palacio en sombras" (The palace in shadows). He moved to San Juan and worked for the daily newspapers, El Mundo [5] and El Imparcial. In San Juan he met and befriended José I. de Diego Padró, a fellow poet and together they created a literary movement known as "Diepalismo", a ...
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (July 24, 1916 – July 22, 1999) was an author from Puerto Rico who achieved great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. His book Campo Alegre is a text that has been studied at schools in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand as well as all over the Americas.
Toa Alta is located west of the capital city of San Juan and was founded in 1751, making it one of the oldest towns on the main island of Puerto Rico. The construction of the San Fernando Rey Church in the main town square began in 1752.
La Carreta (English: The Oxcart) is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. [2] The story follows a family of "jíbaros", or rural peasants, who in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States (see Puerto Rican migration to New York).
La muñeca menor (1972), also known as, The Youngest Doll is a short story written by Rosario Ferré.The story is told in third person narrative, and is part of a larger group of published work in her book of short stories, "Papeles de Pandora", this is one of the most famous of those short stories.
Pueblo chico, infierno grande is a colloquial expression in Spanish, translated as "small town, big hell". [2]It is also the title of a 1926 Chilean movie directed by Nicanor de la Sotta, starring Ernestina Estay, Evaristo Lillo and Plácido Martín [3]
Later, Bankivoide's owner, Matías "El Oscuro" Jiménez, receives a bet for "Granjas el Pollon" to his surprise, which he accepts. The crew go on a trip to a forest where Don Poncho tells a story of his last boxing match: he fought and lost to a fast-moving rooster, revealed to be a duck in disguise, which caused El Padrino to lose his bet ...