what is Costa Rican literature?

There are two questions implied here, a difficult one and an easy one. The difficult one concerns the oral background, the voice of the earth; the easy one is about one of the written Latin American literatures, neatly organised in generations from the end of the 19th century onwards. So, this neat Spanish-speaking Costa Rican literature presumably starts with the Olympus Generation (1890-1920) giving voice to the forming liberal oligarchic society. The next one, gathering around the magazine "Repertorio Americano", fills the two subsequent decades (1920-1940) with socially more corrosive forms of literature, such as grotesque, satire, and humour, reflecting the crisis of that first socio-political formation. Another two decades are ascribed to the so called the 40s generation (1940-1960), working on the socio-political renewal and the introduction of democracy to Costa Rica. The years 1960-1980 are placed under the sign of the Urban generation, celebrating the city as the figuration of mature modernity. The early 1960s brought about an important poetry group that navigated toward a collective Manifesto Transcendentalista (1977). And finally, the 20th century waned under the auspices of the Generation of Disenchantment. 

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