#2,464

The government of these American fiefdoms has been assumed since Independence by the mestizo descendants of Ginés de Pasamonte.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 397

#2,139

Three factors have corrupted, in America, the noble vigor of the Spanish language: the mental solecism of the non-Hispanic immigrant, the child-like eloquence of the black, and the shy, submissive melancholy of the Indian.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 349

#750

The Latin American intellectual has to search for problems for the solutions he imports.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 135

#620

The history of these Latin American republics should be written without disdain but with irony.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 115

#340

The South American intellectual, in order to feed himself, imports junk from the European market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 72

#233

South American exuberance is not abundance, but disorder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 57