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"La risa es satánica, luego es profundamente humana". Estas palabras de Charles Baudelaire centran el problema de lo cómico en una dimensión de la que hasta ahora había carecido. La risa saca a la luz la naturaleza humana y lo hace con una vivacidad que no admite réplica ni vacilación: la condición más recóndita se manifiesta. El angelismo tradicional cede paso a una compleja visión del hombre, la risa - choque perpetuo de dos infinitos, miseria absoluta respecto a la divinidad, grandeza, no menos absoluta,frente a todos los demás seres- es su expresión mejor.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

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La jirafa Marcelina, que no sabe de cocina, quiere hacer una gran cena que le guste a su sobrina. ¡Ya podéis imaginaros el lío que se va a armar! Sus amigos le aconsejan mil cosas disparatadas y la cena se convierte en una fiesta alocada. ¡Ay, querida Marcelina! ¡Qué desastre de cocina! ¿Cómo lo vas a arreglar? ¡¿Y qué vamos a cenar?!