Enigmas

by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal. The twenty quartets comprising Sor Juana In s de la Cruz's ENIGMAS were written for a group of learned Portuguese nuns in 1693 and were only discovered in 1968. Each enigma is structured around wordplay and poses a paradoxical, undecipherable riddle, one whose possible solution readers continue to ponder.

"... such writing unfolds in an eternal present,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937027775
• ISBN13: 9781937027773
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.