El laberinto de la soledad

"The Labyrinth of Solitude" is one of the key pieces of modern literature, a modern essay and a critical reflection on modernity. In the history of Latin American literature, it is the most important essayistic prose of this century, the one that has most influenced the thinking and literature of the Spanish language and the one that has resonated most in those of other languages. In the Hispanic intellectual context, it belongs to the tradition of the national identity essay.